Quotes About Morality

I want to be a good person.

I think he would care if you were a good person, if indeed there is a god.

I am trying to be a good person every day and do what my parents teach me when I was a kid.

You can't be a good actor if you are not a good person.

Being a 'legend' doesn't make you a good person.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

You look at the part in '12 Years A Slave,' you finish that script - I mean, it's a powerful story. You go, 'Man, I have to play a bad character in this.' And then you go, 'Well, do I want to play a bad character and contribute to a good story?'

Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

There is no good time to break the law.

In really good times, you say, 'No, I'm not taking that ad.' But in bad times, you'll take anything.

Ogni cosa a questo mondo è innanzi tutto una questione morale e solo molto più tardi una questione politica.»

this final and long longed-for job: to be unhappy without doing evil.

natural right of the individual to personal freedom overrode man-made laws.

I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong. My toast would be, may our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise always right. I disclaim as unsound all patriotism incompatible with the principles of eternal justice.

WE LIVE IN A CULTURAL CLIMATE QUICK TO ACCEPT THE WORST, DENY the best. And we often have difficulty, unlike Dickens, in being sure about how to define moral indicators, especially in complicated human matters. To Dickens, that came easily. He unhesitatingly believed in absolute truths, both moral and cosmological, though, paradoxically, opposite absolutes often co-exist, as in "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Merchant and pirate were for a long period one and the same person. Even today mercantile morality is really nothing but a refinement of piratical morality.

Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief on already has.

Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall.

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.