Top 46 Morally Good Quotes

#1. I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

William Gibson

Morally Good Quotes #3296
#2. Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

David Foster Wallace

Morally Good Quotes #4449
#3. Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.

Craig Biddle

Morally Good Quotes #48741
#4. These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.

Dean Koontz

Morally Good Quotes #138667
#5. To be beautiful is a good thing, for which we should thank Nature - to be attractive, morally, rather than physically, is, however, a thing for which we should thank Nature even more, if she be good enough to have endowed us with that lasting quality.

Unknown

Morally Good Quotes #204998
#6. Take your pick. It literally could be any one of those things and many, many more. It's hard to live a morally good life when you have a propensity for shenanigans.

T.J. Klune

Morally Good Quotes #303343
#7. Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

Peter Singer

Morally Good Quotes #405586
#8. While individual human beings do enormous good, mankind has always been morally unimpressive.

Dennis Prager

Morally Good Quotes #411066
#9. Neither heredity nor environment determine character. But whether we give in to or overcome the negative messages we are exposed to as we wend our way through life is often determined by whether our parents, teachers, mentors and friends exposed us to good examples and morally inspiring ideas.

Michael Josephson

Morally Good Quotes #435164
#10. The myth of Good Guys and Bad Guys is one of the most pervasive we own, and morally grey anti-heroes are simply one of modern fiction's attempts to shake off that mythology and replace it with something a bit more honest.

Richard K. Morgan

Morally Good Quotes #445346
#11. Football in itself is a grand game for developing a lad physically and also morally, for he learns to play with good temper and unselfishness, to play in his place and 'play the game,' and these are the best of training for any game of life.

Robert Baden-Powell

Morally Good Quotes #451293
#12. Religion grants its adherents malign, intoxicating and morally corrosive sensations. Destroying intellectual freedom is always evil, but only religion makes doing evil feel quite so good.

Philip Pullman

Morally Good Quotes #456802
#13. 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

Morally Good Quotes #478446
#14. These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another ... Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless.

Dean Koontz

Morally Good Quotes #486745
#15. The evidence seems clear that those business which actively serve their many constitutencies in creative, morally thoughtful ways also, over the long run, serve their shareholders best. Companies do, infact, do well by doing good.

Norman Lear

Morally Good Quotes #517697
#16. Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Aldous Huxley

Morally Good Quotes #560266
#17. The world of [comic book] collecting is not a pretty place. For a bunch of guys who like good-over-evil stories, you sure meet a lot of morally bankrupt assholes.

Seth

Morally Good Quotes #572392
#18. I've definitely enjoyed myself more on the projects where I've played a good person, rather than on the projects where I've played somebody who is morally compromised.

Domhnall Gleeson

Morally Good Quotes #594533
#19. It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it.

Edwin Way Teale

Morally Good Quotes #599020
#20. I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue.

Susan Sontag

Morally Good Quotes #616161
#21. As a dad, he thinks that his philosophy is morally correct. He has no conscience whatsoever about letting his kids put a penny in a light socket to find out electricity is not so good for you, and if you want to learn how to swim, you have to be thrown into the deep end.

Stacy Keach

Morally Good Quotes #638169
#22. Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good
we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know
and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

W. H. Auden

Morally Good Quotes #726376
#23. My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don't have an agenda I'm trying to push.

Sydney Pollack

Morally Good Quotes #749307
#24. Hell is not evil; it's a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil.

Randy Alcorn

Morally Good Quotes #793576
#25. It's good to have these stories in our holy books, to remind us that they were written by humans. Filthy-minded, morally ambiguous humans.

Suzanne Morrison

Morally Good Quotes #799272
#26. The idea that there's good and evil knowledge ... well, that's strictly a religious point of view. Actions can be either moral or immoral, yes, but knowledge can't be labeled that way. To a scientist, to any educated man or woman, all knowledge is morally neutral.

Dean Koontz

Morally Good Quotes #865679
#27. Was there supposed to be a moment of blinding clarity when the path through the thicket appeared, brightly illuminated, and Good, Bad, and Morally Neutral all sorted themselves out, slightly messy but completely unambiguous, like egg yolk and egg white and shell?
If so, I missed it

Ann Redisch Stampler

Morally Good Quotes #874156
#28. This isn't about guilt or innocence, he says. The dinosaurs weren't morally good or bad, but they're all dead.

Chuck Palahniuk

Morally Good Quotes #909227
#29. Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.

Leo Tolstoy

Morally Good Quotes #973425
#30. [W]e are not morally bad people for taking carbon and turning it into the energy that offers life to humanity in a world that would otherwise be brutal (think of life before modernity). On the contrary, we are good people for doing so.

John Christy

Morally Good Quotes #977137
#31. We now know that anything which is economically right is also morally right. There can be no conflict between good economics and good morals.

Henry Ford

Morally Good Quotes #1047685
#32. Wickedly funny to read and morally bracing as only good satire can be.

William Styron

Morally Good Quotes #1103239
#33. The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

John Dewey

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#34. I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's decision not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.

Jerry Falwell

Morally Good Quotes #1179532
#35. Process as process is neither morally good nor morally bad. We may judge results but not process. The morally bad agent may perform the deed which is good. The morally good agent may perform the deed which is bad. Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

Robert Penn Warren

Morally Good Quotes #1197608
#36. The bad man is the man who no matter how good he has been is beginning to deteriorate, to grow less good. The good man is the man who no matter how morally unworthy he has been is moving to become better. Such a conception makes one severe in judging himself and humane in judging others.

John Dewey

Morally Good Quotes #1380573
#37. I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

Harmony Korine

Morally Good Quotes #1460338
#38. There can be neither politically nor morally a good which is not universal ... we cannot reform for a time or for a class, but for all and for the whole, and our very interests will draw us together in one wide bond of sympathy.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Morally Good Quotes #1502524
#39. Rubbing herself against a sleeping man just wasn't on. It was morally questionable. Probably illegal. Definitely icky. But why oh why did bad things always feel so damn good? Just once more, she promised herself as she pushed back into him again. "Addie, I am not made of stone.

Amy Andrews

Morally Good Quotes #1522866
#40. As a liberal, I am morally obligated to be pragmatic. What good do I do poor people, elderly people, people who are being discriminated against because of their sexual orientation if I'm not realistic about accomplishing something.

Barney Frank

Morally Good Quotes #1532425
#41. Evolution is amoral. Just because something is natural doesn't make it morally good ("the naturalistic fallacy"). Conversely, just because something is morally desirable doesn't make it true ("the moralistic fallacy").

John Durant

Morally Good Quotes #1597299
#42. If (a writer) has applied himself to an art for 15 or 20 years and they've gotten good at it, and they're expected to do something else to support themselves while the industry that sells this craft supports itself very well, something is badly wrong. Morally wrong.

John Irving

Morally Good Quotes #1624946
#43. A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

Rowan Williams

Morally Good Quotes #1746923
#44. Comics are too big. You can't say any kind or genre of comics is better than another. You can say so subjectively. But to say it like it's objective is wrong. It's wrong morally, because it cuts out stuff that's good.

Ted Rall

Morally Good Quotes #1760671
#45. In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

Stevie Wonder

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#46. We must understand that when a society undermines intellectual freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally bad, but when it represses biological freedom for its own purposes it is absolutely morally good.

Robert M. Pirsig

Morally Good Quotes #1878669

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