Quotes About Morality

A good reputation is more valuable than money.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

Someone reminded me I once said, 'Greed is good.' Now it seems it's legal.

Don't be evil- apparently people like it better than "Be good".

In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.

How we become moral and understand good and bad, and how we overcome our impulse towards violence, is all really important to me, as a person.

We like to have a point of view in our stories, not an obvious moral, but a worthwhile theme. ... All we are trying to do is give the public good entertainment. That is all they want.

Walk along one day and do nothing wrong, play by the rules, be a good person, do everything right: it doesn't guarantee anything.

Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair.

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.

I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

It's so much easier to do good than to be good.

Ethics is not for wimps. It's not easy being a good person. That's why it's such a lofty goal and an admirable achievement

The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature