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Quotes About Morality

People can say or think whatever they want... so in my reality, it's kind of irrelevant. I'm always the kind of person that does the right thing and keeps my side of the street clean.
~ Joel Madden
The greatest bad guys, you understand where they're coming from. They believe they're doing the right thing. Sometimes it's for greed, sometimes it's for other reasons, but they are what they call the center of good. They always believe they're doing the right thing.
~ John Lasseter
There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
~ Louis C. K.
I knew I was getting into one of the most illegal things in the world. It was the right thing to do.
~ Jack Kevorkian
I talk every day about doing the right thing.
~ Laura Schlessinger
History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.
~ Michael Franti
When you do the right thing, but not to any particular person, we instinctively feel that we have earned some sort of pay back. Since no-one will do that for us, we opt for self-service reciprocation.
~ Julian Baggini
The thing with 'Mortal Kombat' is we really deal with that: What is the right thing to do? When somebody does something bad, do you, then, in your mind, rectify the situation by doing something bad to them?
~ Mark Dacascos
While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?
~ Janet Reno
Your personal integrity, once established and earned, people don't have to think about it. They know. They know you. They know you'll do the right thing every time.
~ Rex Tillerson
I think 'Magneto' is definitely an anti-hero. He's fighting for the right thing, but his methods are far too extreme. He's not above breaking the law, stretching the limits of what is moral and putting evil to work for good.
~ Cullen Bunn
Very few people do bad things because they're bad. They generally do bad things because they think they're the right thing to do, but they're misplaced.
~ Paul Greengrass
I continually ask myself if a decision I'm about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It's actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.
~ Mike Gallagher
I believe whenever you're winning and doing the right thing, you're stats will be fine, and everything else will come in place.
~ Kristaps Porzingis
Politics is not the nicest business, but there are still times when people do the right thing.
~ John Dickerson
I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.
~ Judy Sheindlin
As a person, I am not really someone who would intervene and tell you to do the right thing.
~ Rithvik Dhanjani
I'm a firm believer if you do the right thing, the American people will notice.
~ Ronna McDaniel
When you look at all of the male characters on television and in film, it's not like every one of them are the people doing the right thing that you can point to as your own moral compass. We need to have all kinds of characters represented.
~ Ari Graynor
I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I'm at it because that's the, you know, that's the preacher in me.
~ Judy Sheindlin
Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country.
~ Seth Moulton
What makes a man is when you go against your own instincts to do to the right thing.
~ Rod Lurie
With a lot of things in life, it's hard to do the right thing.
~ Cat Zingano
I think you've still got to try to be good, day-to-day. You see a granny, you hold the door open for her. You just try to do the right thing. I don't know if that makes you a saint or the greatest guy in the world, but trying is a start.
~ Sami Zayn