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Quotes About Morality

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.
~ Abu Bakr
It is not true that good can follow only from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.
~ Max Weber
To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.
~ John Adams
Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.
~ Jacque Fresco
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
~ Yannick Noah
Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.
~ Audrey Hepburn
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.
~ Laozi
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad people on a fairly regular basis.
~ Chuck Lorre
God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil.
~ Oral Roberts
In the Way of Heaven, there is no partiality of love; it is always on the side of the good man.
~ Laozi
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
~ Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
It's not bad people I fear so much as good people. When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
~ Clarence Darrow
Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
~ Rick DeMarinis
I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human beings will find a balanced situation when they do good things not because God says it, but because they feel like doing them.
~ Olof Palme
It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.
~ Francis Atterbury
I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.
~ Major Taylor
The contest is not between Us and Them, but between Good and Evil, and if those who would fight Evil adopt the ways of Evil, Evil wins.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up.
~ Richard Dawkins
The common good and the individual good rarely coincide.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
~ Joe Mantegna