The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

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 am not a crook.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

A letter does not blush.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

I just think you ought to talk straight with your people.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.