Quotes About Morality

Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve a victory over other people, you will conquer yourself.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

Contrary to the cliche', genuinely nice guys most often finish first or very near it.

It's much easier to be cruel than one might think.

To marry a girl just to make her a widow," said Gabriel Lightwood. "Many would say that was not a kindness.

For kindness begets kindness evermore, But he from whose mind fades the memory Of benefits, noble is he no more.

The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction...the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them.

We need to teach our youth American values, kindness, honesty,respect.

It is better to act right than seek right.

Kindness is not entered onto the great ledger of civilisation.

Your wealth or status doesn't make you. Your kindness and character does.

Do the Good to Bad then Bad will do Good to you

Conquer evil with good deeds.

Kindness isn't so difficult, when the object is worthy.

Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.

Sins have many side-effects. One of them is that they steal knowledge from you.

Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.