Quotes About Morality

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.

But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.

Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe.

When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

My idea of what God should be is a good guy. I don't think there's any good in killing people in the name of your God.

The line between good and evil is movable and it's permeable.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.

I just want my children to be happy. And to be good people. Proper people. That's all.

The propensity to do good things is a choice.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

Good character is more important than wealth, good looks, popularity and even education. These things do not guarantee happiness and often they become obstacles to developing good character.

Evil is the starry sky of the Good.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

None are known to be good, till they have opportunity to be bad.

My parents didn't raise me to be a professional player. They raised me to be a good person.

people think they have to be good before they can act good. But ... it works just as well the other way 'round.

I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.

Really a bad guy is more interesting, dramatically, than the good guy.