Maureen Dowd Quotes

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

It is good insofar as it is not evil.

At a simple level, good is that which helps people-evil is that which hurts people. At a higher level, good is that which is in harmony with divine purpose-evil is that which is out of harmony with divine purpose.

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Civilization depends on morality.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

Ye must leave righteous ways behind, not to speak of unrighteous ways.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!

In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.