Quotes About Ethics

The real genres: good and bad.

Good and bad karma are just ways of evaluating causal experience. What you do affects your attention field.

You say a good cause justifies any war; but I say a good war justifies any cause.

And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values.

There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

Set good against evill. [Set good against evil.]

To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

There are some examples of medieval kings who were terrible human beings but were nevertheless good kings.

It's easier to swoon in pious dreams Than do good actions.

Good people suddenly don't turn bad.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

There's no good guys and bad guys.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a responsibility to ourselves to be a good boy.

It's very hard to be good. It is self-destructive thinking to think that there is too much good.

As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

do you think it is better to be clever than to be good?" "Good for what?" asked the Doctor. "You are good for nothing unless you are clever.

It is essential that America's word be good.