Charles Dickens Quotes

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

All men are born good.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Let us be true: this is the highest maxim of art and of life, the secret of eloquence and of virtue, and of all moral authority.

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults and the Montaignes that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues. I believe a great abatement from that proportion may be made in favor of general honesty.

A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen

He was as great as a man can be without morality

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

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 .