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Quotes About Morality

It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.
~ Roger Scruton
The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
I think good things come to good people.
~ Derrick Rose
If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
~ Dennis Prager
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
~ Maxim Gorky
The horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things -- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great.
~ Slavoj Zizek
Good manners is part of taqwa and you cannot have taqwa without good manners
~ Ibn Rajab
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.
~ Philip Zimbardo
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
~ Bryce Harper
I want to show people how there are variations and different interpretations of good and evil.
~ Hideo Kojima
The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I believe in love, children and being a good person.
~ Leighton Meester
At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.
~ Taraji P. Henson
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
~ Ralph Steadman
Your actions toward others are your bank deposit. It's easy to be good to nice people, but try to be caring to everyone. It is a test.
~ Sylvia Browne
I'm more interested in being good than being famous.
~ Annie Leibovitz
You got good and bad people everywhere.
~ Suge Knight
It's better to be a good person than a famous person.
~ Jenny Holzer
The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.
~ Ralph Nader
Good character is property. It is the noblest of all possessions.
~ Samuel Smiles
Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.
~ T.S. Eliot