Quotes About Morality

Truthfulness is at the foundation of all personal excellence.

may be of comparatively little consequence how a man is governed from without, whilst everything depends upon how he governs himself from within.  The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.  Nations who are thus enslaved at heart cannot be freed by any mere changes of masters

Simple honesty of purpose in a man goes a long way in life, if founded on a just estimate of himself and a steady obedience to the rule he knows and feels to be right.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

And I had done a hellish thing, And it would work 'em woe: For all averred, I had killed the bird That made the breeze to blow. Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay, That made the breeze to blow!

O my brethren! I have told Most bitter truth, but without bitterness. Nor deem my zeal fractious or mistimed; For never can true courage dwell with them Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

Women readers aren`t turned on by nice heroes any more than male readers lust after heroines who are too virtuous.There should be at least a hint,maybe even a promise, of corruptibility.

Who would have believed that Israeli soldiers would kill hundreds of children and that the majority of Israelis would remain silent?

I made the decision to do everything in my power to prevent the execution of a plan that was going to compromise Bulgaria in the eyes of the world and brand it with a mark of shame that it did not deserve.

If you kill with homemade bombs it's called terrorism, and if you kill with machine guns and hunger it's called defense.

Para que el Bien tenga mérito —enfatizó— hace falta que exista el Mal.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn't mean you should?

Do you think anyone in the history of this world ever set out to fight for the wrong side?

At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.

I'd done the right thing. I always did. It just would have been nice if someone had noticed.

I wondered again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance, when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous...

It's not always so simple, Haven. Sometimes there isn't a good guy and a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

Just because someone's pretty, doesn't mean she's decent.

Sometimes there isn't a good guy or a bad guy. Sometimes even the ones you want to believe turn out to be liars.

I wonder again why the right thing always seemed to be met with so much resistance when you'd think it would be the easier path. You had to fight to be virtuous

It's interesting said Jack. What is? You believe in God. he said. You just don't believe that God is good.

There is often a "cadre" of bad friends around a person encouraging them to do things that are morally wrong, unjustified, and unethical