Quotes About Morality

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

Success to me is being a good person, treating people well.

Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

Alek said, "Do you think I'm being a fool?" "I think you're trying to do something good. But doing good is rarely easy, and no weapon has ever stopped a war.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

There's only room for one hero in this story-and everyone knows the devil doesn't get to be the good guy.

Good necessitates evil and the two sides of that disk are not always clearly marked.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

I never listen to what people tell me and I can't read. The only way I know what is right and wrong is the way I feel about things. If I feel bad, it's wrong. If I feel good, it's right.

Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

I'm a good person," I said, "because I know what good people are supposed to act like, and I copy them.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.