Louis Armstrong Quotes

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

It is no easy task to be good.

The unrighteous are never really fortunate.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

There are good characters and bad characters.

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Shun all vice, especially card playing.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

No one may do evil that good may come.

It’s not Right vs. Left; it’s Right vs. Wrong.

It is impossible to deny that dishonest men often grow rich and famous, becoming powerful in their parish or in parliament. Their portraits grace shop windows; and they live and die respected. This success is theirs; yet it is not the success which a noble soul will envy.

Of God and Evil, there is nothing simply and absolutely so; nor any common Rule of Good and Evil, to be taken from the nature of the objects themselves.

True liberty, then, is a liberty to do everything that is right …

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.