Quotes About Morality

You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

The world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt.

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one's beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Don't fear, just live right.

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.