Quotes and Sayings about Morality

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Sirius Black in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Decisions

It is our choices that makes us who we are, and we always have a choice to do what's right.

Peter Parker in Spider-Man

Decisions

A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to.

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Brisingr

Warriors

I'm starting to realize more than I ever wanted to, that doing the right thing doesn't always make you feel good.

Thomas Adam Kirkman in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4

We all want to do the right thing. But the right thing is seldom free.

Kimble Hookstraten in Designated Survivor - Season 1 Episode 4

We fight believing in our own justice. But if the enemy is doing the same thing, who's right?

Shisui Uchiha in Naruto

Justice

Sometimes good people make bad choices. It doesn't mean they're bad people. It means they're human.

Kishou Arima in Tokyo Ghoul

Humanity

I always wanted to be someone better the next day than I was the day before.

Sidney Poitier

Motivation

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Law Principles

No man chooses evil because it is evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

An enemy that is pure evil? Right or wrong are not what separates us and our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that separate us. Both sides blame one another. There's no good or bad side. Just two sides holding different views.

Squall in Final Fantasy - VIII

If you need the threat of hell to be a good person, then you're just a bad person on a leash.

Hölle

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

Mario Cuomo

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Earl Warren

Law

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.

Andrew Young

It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world.

Abraham Lincoln

I’ve known good criminals and bad cops. Bad priests, honorable thieves. You can be on one side of the law or the other. But if you make a deal with somebody, you keep your word. You can go home today with your money and never do this again. But you took something that wasn’t yours. And you sold it for a profit. You’re now a criminal. Good one, bad one? That’s up to you.

Mike Ehrmantraut in Better Call Saul - Season 1 Episode 9

Crime

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Politics have no relation to morals.

Niccoló Machiavelli

Politics

The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.

Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange

Decisions

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Roald Dahl

Character Appearance

Force answers force, war breeds war, and death only brings death. To break this vicious circle one must do more than just act without any thought or doubt.

Khan in Metro - 2033

War

'It is as though I have a black dog and a white dog inside me fighting each other constantly.' The black dog, he explained, represented evil and the white dog represented good. The missionary asked him, 'Which dog wins the fight within you?' After several moments of silence, the native said, 'The dog that wins is the one I feed and the dog that loses is the one I starve.'

Indian American Saying

Character Decisions

About morals, 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

Conscience

Killing thousands to save millions... nobody should have to make these decisions.

Sam Fisher in Splinter Cell - Double Agent

What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind.
What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living.

Albert Einstein

Buddha Religion

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Responsibility Snow

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Martin Luther King

Humanity Weapons Science Spirituality

Morals can't be taught with words.

Roman Herzog

Morality is a beautiful servant and a dangerous master.

Camille, the Steel Shadow in League of Legends

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Mister Spock in Star Trek - II: The Wrath of Khan

Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions.

Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park - III

As a man, I've been representative of the values I hold dear. And the values I hold dear are carryovers from the lives of my parents.

Sidney Poitier

Upbringing

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

William Safire

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Frank Herbert

Truth

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

J. C. Watts

Character

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

Dhanush

Life

Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.

Douglas Horton

Despite what they tell you, there are simply no moral absolutes in a complex world.

Berkeley Breathed

Ethics are more important than laws.

Wynton Marsalis

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

John Shelby Spong

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

Mohanlal

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Henry Ford

Greed Money

It is easier to exemplify values than teach them.

Theodore Hesburgh

Upbringing Parents

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

Thomas Hardy

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; seperated from law and justice he is the worst.

Aristotle

Law

Matthew Dougherty: "Jean-Luc, we're only moving 600 people."
Picard: "How many people does it take before it becomes wrong?"

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek - Insurrection

When a man is pushed to his limits, he will stand by his convictions.

Victor Coste in Splinter Cell - Convictions

Character

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It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Character Decisions

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

Failures & Mistakes Decisions

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Voldemort / Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Power Good & Evil

A conscience is that still small voice that people won't listen to.

Jiminy Cricket in Pinocchio

Conscience

Brom: "Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real courage is in living and suffering for what you believe."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eragon

Faith Principles

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