Quotes About Morality

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Be good and you'll be lonesome

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I want to be a good human being.

Liberty is an opportunity for doing good, but this is only so when it is also an opportunity for doing wrong.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.

I do have traditional values: I believe in being a good person and being polite.

I firmly believe that we're all good people, but sometimes it's hard to understand how to do good.

A person's ethics and character are not tested in good times. It is only in bad times that a person shows how steadfast he is to his dharma.

He who ceases to be better, ceases to be good.