David Tennant Quotes

Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

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

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Most people don't have any association in their minds with what they do and with ethics. They think they somehow moved past the questions of morality or values or ethics, and that's something that I've never imagined to be true.

If you're a good person, that's all that really matters.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

One ought to be just before one is generous

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

So from then on, he looked at all his choices and said, What would a good person do, and then did it. But he has now learned something very important about human nature. If you spend your whole life pretending to be good, then you are indistinguishable from a good person. Relentless hypocrisy eventually becomes the truth.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

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