Quotes About Morality

Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

That which is good for all and any one, For whomsoever- that is good for me. . . What I hold good for self, I should for all. Only Law Universal is true law.

I wouldn't give you two cents for all your fancy rules if, behind them, they didn't have a little bit of plain, ordinary, everyday kindness and a little looking out for the other fella, too.

It is not an act of kindness to treat animals respectfully. It is an act of justice.

Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

The eating of meat extinguishes the seed of Great Kindness.

Kindness is an everyday byproduct of all the great virtues.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest