Quotes about Morality
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
— Edmund Burke
Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.
— CS Lewis
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.
— Rowan Williams
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
— CS Lewis
Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.
— Charles Spurgeon
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
— Margaret Mead
Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.
— Thomas Merton
If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?
— St. Augustine
Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.
— CS Lewis
Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
— Cicero
If you're a good person, the goodness will continue through your descendants.
— Diane von Furstenberg