Quotes About Morality

It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.

Good people are always so sure they're right.

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn't?

We need to believe that we're good people, and we'll do just about anything to maintain that perception.

Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals.

We should aim for our children to be good people, and to live ethical lives that manifest concern for others as well as for themselves.

I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It's nice to do that.

I believe in doing good for good's sake.

I've done bad things with relish, and good things with pickles.

Hear good things, see good, do good, think good, then you get the Grace of God, as all the evil tendencies will be uprooted.

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.

Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.

Good and bad are really arbitrary words when it comes to character.

It must be remembered that there is no real reason to expect anything in particular from mankind; good and evil are local expedients - or their lack - and not in any sense cosmic truths or laws.

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?