Quotes About Righteousness

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

It's almost not necessary for us to do good. It's only necessary for us to stop doing evil, for goodness sake.

Outside of, as a kid, just wanting to be able to fly and run faster than a speeding locomotive and being able to leap tall buildings in a single bound, we'd like to hope that, when push comes to shove, we can do the right thing. I think as long as there is that hope in our society and in the zeitgeist of superheroes, Superman will be relevant.

Frank Castle knows only two sides: Good and Evil. There is no grey zone for him.

He will hew the line of right, let the chips fall where they may.

God befriend us, as our cause is just!

Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.

God loveth the clean.

Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.

The hoary beard is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of righteousness.

Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn-the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.

You have much more power when you are working for the right thing than when you are working for the wrong thing.

Conscience, as I understand it, is the impulse to do the right thing because it is right, regardless of personal ends, and has nothing whatever to do with the ability to distinguish between right and wrong.

A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

Right and wrong are not relative terms. There are fundamental truths. Evil flourishes, but good men continue to battle it - and win.

Just try to do the right thing, and that's immediate karma: 'I feel good about myself.'

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.

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

When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.

It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.