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As long as I know that my motives are good, I'm Seldom very concerned with the opinions of others.
-Mandorallen, Baron of Vo Mandor. — David Eddings

There is nothing good or bad about knowledge itself; morality lies in the application of knowledge. — Jon Erickson

Ethnicity and morality can of course combine, giving the sense that "we" are "good" and "they" are "bad. — Hal Whitehead

The flip side of the coin of which Good and Evil are but one side. — Terry Pratchett

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules. — John Irving

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something? — John Legend

What good does it do to tell somebody to live morally so they can die 50 years later and apparently go to Hell? — Donald Miller

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil. — Sylvester Stallone

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good. — Walter Lippmann

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me. — Jim Butcher

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose. — Immanuel Kant

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy. — Henry David Thoreau

Moral vanity is the snare of good people. — Margaret Deland

What good literature can do and does do - far greater than any importation of morality - is touch the human soul. — Karen Swallow Prior

Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public. — Criss Jami

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil. — Friedrich Nietzsche

No man is such a legalist as the good Secularist. — G.K. Chesterton

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. — Ayn Rand

Creating gods who can see everything, and who hate cheaters and oath breakers, turns out to be a good way to reduce cheating and oath breaking. — Jonathan Haidt

Men cannot be made good by the state, but they can easily be made bad. Morality depends on liberty. — Lord Acton

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality. — Fisher Ames

There are no self-proclaimed villains, only regiments of self-proclaimed saints. Victorious historians rule where good or evil lies. — Glen Cook

Common morality now treats childbearing as an aberration. There are practically no good reasons left for exercising one's fertility. — Germaine Greer

And morality is nothing if it is merely a form of good behavior. — Lawrence Durrell

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose. — Donald Judd

[W]e must start from somewhere in current folk morality, otherwise we start from somewhere unintuitive, and that can hardly be a good place to start — Frank Jackson

Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone. — Charles Sumner

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. — Malcolm Forbes

The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn't make them less good. But it also doesn't make the wrong less wrong. — Ovadya Ben Malka

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good. — Henry David Thoreau

Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality. — Kai Nielsen

The sign of a good conscience is for a man to be in support of basically everything that Westboro Baptist isn't. — Luke Myer

Goodness is sparked by a caution for the sake of what is good, not a fear of what is bad. — Criss Jami

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course. — Myrtle Reed

The truth is neither good nor bad. It is above evil. Above morality. It doesn't offer anything besides itself. — Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Mankind's first sin gave us the ability to know both good and evil. Our subsequent sins make us increasingly unable to tell the difference. — Ron Brackin

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man. — Thomas Huxley

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful. — Benjamin Franklin

Do you really mean the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward? That's not morality, that's just sucking up. — Richard Dawkins

What the good Lord lets happen, I am not ashamed to print in my paper. — Charles A. Dana

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions. — T. S. Eliot

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good. — Marcus Aurelius

A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward. — George R R Martin

Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough. — Henry Ward Beecher

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports. — Greg Howard

Those moral laws on which all human excellence is founded - a love of truth in ourselves, and a sincere sympathy with our fellow-creatures. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Morality is good when we use it to live our lives but not to hurt anyone. — Debasish Mridha

Always accept good advices from others, they will help you out if you are facing any complications in life — Saaif Alam

Good action films - not crap, but good action films - are really morality plays. They deal in modern, mythic culture. — Sylvester Stallone

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right. — Neal Shusterman

Good, then, is indefinable.... — G.E. Moore

Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality. — Swami Vivekananda

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

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is. — Simone Weil

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. — Henry David Thoreau

I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty. — Mark Twain

This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero. — Ayn Rand

And yet another moral occurs to me now: Make love when you can. It's good for you. — Kurt Vonnegut

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal. — Dorothy L. Sayers

You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

War is the action of low man: Low in morality, low in humanity, and low in all the good values! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

no doubt that evil is more contagious than good, therefore, it's more powerful. — Anonymous

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality? — Philip Zimbardo

For he that will say and nothing do
Is not worthy with good company to go. — Anonymous

In fine, that it is not enough to be good, without behaving in such a manner as shall make others acknowledge us to be so. — Eliza Haywood

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. — Bertrand Russell

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

The anti-mind is the anti-life. — Ayn Rand

Killing a pig for a good old fry-up is one thing. But there's no excuse for being cruel, even if you're a bored teenage kid. — Ozzy Osbourne

One ought always to lie, when one can do good by it; — Mark Twain

Every act intends some good. — Brent Weeks

People today ... it seems they are good, or sometimes evil, mostly by inertia, not by choice. — Brandon Sanderson

The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Christians obscured the good news by their efforts to restore morality to the broader culture? — Philip Yancey

It's not that we don't have enough scoundrels to curse; it's that we don't have enough good men to curse them. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius

In truth, there are no good people. There are only the decisions we make and the circumstances we live in. — Evan Grinde

...if good is defined as something else, it is then impossible either to prove that any other definition is wrong or even to deny such definition. — G.E. Moore

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges. — Camille Paglia