Quotes About Morality

All things whatsoever ye wou'd that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Good and evil lie close together. Seek no artistic unity in character.

General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocite, flatterer.

No good deed ever goes unpunished.

There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us, that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.

Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

The age of strong belief is over, the good is no longer always very good.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither praise nor reward, though sure of both at last.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Man's capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man's capacity for good makes democracy possible.

Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Virtue, like a dowerless beauty, has more admirers than followers.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

The needle of our conscience is as good a compass as any.

Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!

It is in virtue that happiness consists, for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

The greatest happiness of the greatest number.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.