Quotes About Morality

Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.

I am one who tells the truth and exposes evil and seeks with Beauty for Beauty to set the world right.

It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.

The glory of riches and of beauty is frail and transitory; virtue remains bright and eternal. [Lat., Divitarum et formae gloria fluxa atque fragilis; virtus clara aeternaque habetur.]

I try to see their moral relevance [in the Bible] and, of course, to admire the literary beauty of the text. Prophetic poetry: No one has written the way Isaiah does.

Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks.

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

Voices and faces aren't manifestationsof good or bad.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.

You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one, for there is no difficulty in the world like that of trying to do nothing.

I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world

You have to be true to yourself, but you have to be true to your best self, not to the self that secretly thinks you are better than other people.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

We judge our own character by our best intentions and most noble acts, but we will be judged by our last worst act.

I think Ayn Rand did the best job of anybody to build a moral case of capitalism, and that morality of capitalism is under assault.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.

Wizard's Second Rule The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.