Morality Quotes

The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That�s my religion.

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.

A man does what he must, in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures, and that is the basis of all human morality.

There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.

What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.

What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness.

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil.

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected.