Quotes About Morality

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen." - Carter to Georgina

Can't you ever get off for good behavior?" "Sure, if I was ever good.

What True Blood does really well is that it balances on the line between good and evil - you blur the distinction between the two.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

No one is anything but a shade of grey. It's good people making bad choices.

I consider myself to be a good guy so it's not hard for me to play that.

Evil has no need to bother with eliminating Good. It's far simpler to let Good fight against itself.

My characters come from a good place.

Everyone is caught in the web of his or her own actions and is bound by past karmas (actions). Good and bad are relative terms. Every action takes one to the next place.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

I learned the bad guys are not always bad, the good guys are not always good.

No good deed goes unpunished- Syn

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.