Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

Be virtuous and you will be vicious.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

To do no evil is good, to intend none better.

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.

I have pushed virtue to outright brutality.

Virtue is harmony.

What is the purpose of our might if we do not use it for good.

He is good and wise who always speaks the truth, acts on the dictates of virtue, and tries to make others good and happy.

The truth is that goodness is hardwired in humanity.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man.

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.

Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.