Thomas Fuller Quotes

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.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

People's character is their behaviour - we're all capable of good and evil.

It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

I firmly believe there are no bad people.

I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

A perverted moral judgment belongs to the dogmatic system.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

Modern morality is all about perception.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

We are naturally moral beings, but our environments can enhance - or, sadly, degrade - this innate moral sense.

There is no system that is inherently moral if the participants themselves are not.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

There's a great deal of difference between thinking reflectively about moral issues and achieving higher standards of ethical behavior.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.