Quotes About Morality

Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way and it's evil, sometimes it just depends on which end of the gun you're on.

moral vanity is the snare of good people.

Two voices struggled inside me. One that wanted to be good and brave, and one that told the good one to keep her mouth shut.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

We are a great nation because we are a good people.

I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.

What's devil to some is good to some others.

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

A true woman of virtue is one who will socialize with every man on earth, and doesn't share her body with any of them.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

Being a good human being is very easy: Be a good son, a good husband, a good parent and a good citizen.

You need to say and do the right things and good things happen to good people.

There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate

The habits of feeling, action and judgment that comprise good character depend on personal self-discipline and powerful aspiration to become a good person, all of which must be drawn from within.

We grow up being told, "Be a good girl." When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad.

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right.

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

You can't be a good leader without good character.

Do well by doing good.

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

Don't be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.