Anne Rice Quotes

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

We believe in the inherent goodness of man.

Truth is congenial to man. Moral truth is then most consummate when, like beauty, it commends itself without argument. The righteous not only does right, but loves to do right.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

Humanity is good. Some people are terrible and broken, but humanity is good. I believe that.

That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.

I know that there is absolutely good in the world.

It reinforced everything that I believe. I am an optimist. I believe in the goodness of people.

I am a firm believer that the pull for human beings is towards the good, generally outweighing the bad.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

I honor my importance and the importance of others. None of us is dispensable, none of us is replacable. In the chorus of life each of us brings a True Note, a perfect pitch that adds to the harmony of the whole. I act creatively and consciously to actively endorse and encourage the expansion of those whose lives I touch. Believing in the goodness of each, I add to the goodness of all. We bless each other even in passing.

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences.

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.

When goodness is lost, it is replaced by morality.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

If you can't see that the glass is half full, you can never be a socialist. You have to believe in the goodness of the majority of people to be a socialist. You have to believe that if the majority of people had their way, they would make a society that would be fair for everyone. If you don't believe that, and if you think that the glass is always half empty, then you're never going to have that sensibility.

Tell me there is still good in the world. Tell me there is still hope for all of us.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

Without "ethical culture", there is no salvation for humanity.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.