Quotes About Morality

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

Works make not the heart good, but a good heart makes the works good.

We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

By the cold and religious we were taken in hand - shown how to feel good; and told to feel bad.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil.

It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

I've been a good boy, I've never really been convicted of serious crime.

Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

Be careful not to do your good deeds when there's no one watching you.

Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

I was brought up to be a good boy and proud of myself so I suppress all the things about me that are bad.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.