William James Quotes

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

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

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

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

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.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

He was as great as a man can be without morality

We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

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

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

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

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Good morals lead to good laws.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Integrity is the core of our character. Without integrity, we have a weak foundation upon which to build other Christlike characteristics.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

You oughtn't to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.