Quotes About Morality

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?" "Good for what?" asked the Doctor. "You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

The more facts I can have, the better. I can operate very nicely between them, but I am not very good at making things up. I am not sure how ethical it is.

There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.

whoever gives the common people food to eat is a good person whoever lets the common people starve is a bad person.

Precious beyond price are good resolutions. Valuable beyond price are good feelings.

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

Think good, speak good, and be good.

Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.

It's nearly impossible for a criminal to come from a good mother.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

The bad guys are not typical, they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.

The Golden Rule will always be good advice!

As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Be good only if being bad ain't more fun.

I'm attracted to those kinds of roles that could be good or could be bad, and you just don't know.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

My crazy parents and those crazy Catholic nuns didn't do a good job of forcing me to keep the Ten Commandments, but they kept me forever fixated on the very idea of a taboo.