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What is good is irrepressible. — Robert A. Giacalone

I don't tend to think in terms of a moral authority - be a good boy, do good things - more in terms of what feels right. — John Cusack

Bad men cannot make good citizens. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience are incompatible with freedom. — Patrick Henry

The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth. — Bertrand Russell

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable. — Martin Luther

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion. — Francis Bacon

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

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. — Joseph Heller

There is nothing," he added, "quite like the moral absolutism of the young. It's easy, as a child, to believe in good and evil, in light and dark. — Cassandra Clare

Intelligence, like fire, is a power that is neither good nor bad in itself but rather takes its virtue, its moral coloring, from its application. — Roger Kimball

Those who have prospered and profited from life's lottery have a moral obligation to share their good fortune. — Dick Gephardt

Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user. — Dave Ramsey

A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. — George Bernard Shaw

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

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists. — Robert Payne

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous. — George Washington

I may do some good before I am dead
be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. — Thomas Hardy

For sound advice is a beacon, good teaching is a light, moral discipline is a life path. — Eugene H. Peterson

Character consists of the moral awareness and strength to know the good, love the good and do the good. — Thomas Lickona

You don't need the technical understanding to make the moral judgments. — Barbara Katz Rothman

I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books. — Orhan Pamuk

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

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people. — Antonia Fraser

Cautionary Moral: Don't let your heart overrule your head. — Kris Waldherr

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility. — Steven Spielberg

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. — William Penn

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Babette looked too good for the place tonight, but then goodness is only relative after all ("Steps Going Up" aka "Guillotine" aka "Men Must Die") — Cornell Woolrich

Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything. — Charles Caleb Colton

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby. — Paul Newman

It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port. — Henry Mayhew

The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for other men ... — Baruch Spinoza

The teacher who would be true to his mission and accomplish the most good, must give prominence to moral as well as intellectual instruction. — Sheldon Jackson

I try not to think in terms of good and bad but more in terms of helpful or unhelpful in regards to specific moral codes and goals. — Richard Brancatisano

Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good. — John Bradshaw

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?' — Richard Dawkins

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know. — Alan Furst

THOMAS TUSSER. 1523-1580. Moral Reflections on the Wind. Except wind stands as never it stood, It is an ill wind turns none to good. {95} — Various

Nothing does more to lubricate the rough spots than a good dose of encouragement. — Tony Dungy

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

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

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises. — Thomas Mann

Reason is a necessary instrument, to be used for good or evil, but it has no moral qualities. — Reinhard Bendix

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to acomplish, both in the natural and moral world. — Edmund Burke

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death. — Michel Houellebecq

The flute is not an instrument that has a good moral effect - it is too exciting. — Plato

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of good,
Than all the sages can. — William Wordsworth

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland. — Democritus

Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to
moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written
in it? — Richard Dawkins

Education and morals make the good man, the good statesman, the good ruler. — Aristotle.

...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

Think about that for a moment. They died for you. Now take a good look at the life you're living and tell me: Did they do the right thing? — Mira Grant

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

The Chinese government knows that what I am teaching is good and that I am teaching people to have high moral values. — Li Hongzhi

Anything as good and true as that moral cannot be new at this late date. — Richard H. Davis

To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Noncooperation with evil is just as much a moral duty as is cooperation with good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The theory that holds "good blood" or "bad blood" as a moral-intellectual criterion , can lead to nothing but torrents of blood in practice. — Ayn Rand

I'd say a man is someone who is honest, strong-minded, moral, genuine, just a good human being. — Logan Lerman

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. — George Edward Moore

Moral conduct,or duty,is defined as the obligation to select that action which will achieve more good than any alternative action.... — G.E. Moore

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

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

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway,

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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

The best things in life are clean living, good works, and big saphires. And not in that order. — Lauren Bacall

Bad company ruins good morals. — Paul The Apostle

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil. — Samuel Johnson

I'm incredibly articulate, thoughtful and moral, and I think about what I do. I want to be known for doing something good. — Simon Fuller

I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity. — Robert Jeffress

The really difficult moral issues arise, not from a confrontation of good and evil, but from a collision between two goods — Irving Kristol

What is moral is what you feel good after. — Ernest Hemingway,

Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. — Plato

What I like best is a good story with a moral. — Oscar Micheaux

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Don't solicit for your sister, it's not nice. Unless you get a good percentage of her price. — Tom Lehrer

The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any good would ever get done. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. — Douglas Haig

From the moral as from the intellectual point of view, the child is born neither good nor bad but master of his destiny. — Jean Piaget

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

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

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known. — Michael Shermer

Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. — Plutarch

I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect. — Jo Nesbo

I believe in the teachings of Christ. I think that's a good way to set your moral compass. — Margo MacDonald

There is a moral dimension, for me, in anything that's any good. — Twyla Tharp

How can you hope to recognize good and evil for what they truly are if you have no belief in a moral authority greater than yourself? — Ted Dekker

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard

Mankind has many things that it never knew before. What I can tell you is that human moral values are no longer good. — Li Hongzhi

Neither party has God on its side, a monopoly on good ideas, or a lock on any single fiscal, social, or moral philosophy. — Michael Bloomberg

Sad as they were at his moral decay, the friends were not a little jealous of the good time Danny was having. — John Steinbeck

He that sees the beauty of holiness or true moral good ,sees the greatest and most important thing in the world. — Jonathan Edwards

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Drinking more often brings out the best in the good than the worst in the bad. — Malcolm Forbes

We (atheists) act in good conscience because we believe in moral principles, not because we expect a reward in Heaven. — Margherita Hack

I like doing movies that have good messages and have good moral backgrounds to them and things like that - and send out positive messages. — Kevin Sorbo

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana. — Swami Vivekananda