Quotes About Ethics

Let good people sin. Give virtue to rotters.

It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

You hear that liberalism lacks an idea of the common good, but I think that's a mistake.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

I know who I am. And I know I'm a good person.

Virtue is not to be considered in the light of mere innocence, or abstaining from harm; but as the exertion of our faculties in doing good.

To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

Lastly, waging war against good people is bad for the soul. This may not seem important to you now, but it's the most important thing I've said.

Too much trouble," "Too expensive," or "Who will know the difference" are death knells for good food.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

Good and evil are merely opposite sides of a coin. Get tossed in the air enough, it's easy to come down on the wrong side.

I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.

What people believe impacts on what they do. And it's not as if religion is universally bad. Of course it's responsible for many peoples doing good actions.

Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.

I'm no good at being good.

If it is true that vice can never be done away with, the science of government consists of making it contribute to the public good.

To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed going on about them.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.