Quotes About Morality

Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people.

It's no sin to tell a good story.

Yet the age was not so utterly destitute of virtues but that it produced some good examples. [Lat., Non tamen adeo virtutum sterile seculum, ut non et bona exempla prodiderit.]

Good and evil exists everywhere.

Do you still think I'm the good guy?

Knowing how bad you could be is a great encouragement to being good.

Good and bad is tricky," she said. "I ain't too certain about where people stand. P'raps what matters is which way you face." (pp. 348-349)

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Certainly some things that are very good can sometimes be used in a bad way.

Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.

Be good or don't get caught.

I wonder if this is how is is with all evil men, that to someone, they look just like good men, talk like good men, are just as likable as good men.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

Good words are better than bad strokes.

Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.

Active evil is better than passive good

Well, evil to some is always good to others.

...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better, [Cloquet thought, ] while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.