Believe Quote by Joan Didion

To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.

— Joan Didion

The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

— Diogenes

“What they consider to be the ‘natural’ order must be maintained. That pursuit is so much higher than all else—it makes lesser ethical problems…

— Hugh Howey

“Higher good is like water: the good in water benefits all, and does so without contention. It rests where people dislike to be, so…

— Laozi Dao De Jing

“Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can’t be punished for being good. One can’t be penalized for ability.”

— Ayn Rand

With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.

— Herbert Spencer

“Consciousness of the bad is an essential prerequisite to the promotion of the good.”

— Khushwant Singh

“The reality is that doing good unto others actually does more good for you.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil. The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to…

— Anthony Burgess

Believing in the good of humanity is a revolutionary act - it means that we don't need all those managers and CEO's, kings and…

— Rutger Bregman

So long as one believes in God, one has the right to do the Good in order to be moral.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us [...], because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate; that which…

— Edmund Burke