Quotes About Morality

What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

We all must try to be good.

I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

The thing that pleases is not always good and, helas, the good thing does not always please.

The real genres: good and bad.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]

We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

If you want to be good, all you've got to do is be good.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

There's no good guys and bad guys.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.