Quotes About Ethics

I don't really believe in good and evil. I never had. I think it's enabled me to open my mind.

That's sort of what I like about this character is that he's not the good guy, he's not truly the bad guy.

Wicked people sometimes perform good actions. I suppose they wish to see if this gives as great a feeling of pleasure as the virtuous claim for it.

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.

Virtue is about wanting right and good things, not about being particularly good at thinking.

Not all design is for the general good.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

I'm very interested in why we do good things, or bad things, and where moral judgments come from.

I think empathy can serve as a moral spark, motivating us to do good things. But anything can be a moral spark.

If Ivanka Trump called, I think good people need to serve.

If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I became a scientist was not to have to think about that kind of thing.

O God, make the bad people good, and the good people nice

We do good by ourselves, but we seldom do wrong alone.

We believe that business can be a tool for social good.

And if we are good, we are beneficent: for all good things are beneficial. Are they not?

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.

By doing good, we do well.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.