Charles Lamb Quotes

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

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

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

What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.

Human morality is unthinkable without empathy.

I still have great faith in what is good and right in all of us.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

I'm not sure anything makes you an outright good person or bad person - that we're all capable of doing good or bad things. And if you want to know how much good you can do, and how much hurt you can do, just ask somebody you love.

I boil down people to 'good heart' or 'bad heart' - meaning they're basically good or basically not.

The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our own standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.

Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love.

I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

Every day I live by only one rule, be a good guy.

Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

The most important thing is that you be a good person and you live by the golden rule of do unto others. If you live by that, that's all I care about.

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

A man is only as good as what he loves.

Virtue is harmony.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.