Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.
Mark TwainConscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.
George EliotHong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.
Anthony BourdainIt is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel JohnsonI think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
Lady GagaPeople who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
Dan QuayleMoral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.
Stephen CoveyThe strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
ConfuciusJustice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund BurkeIn my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.
BonoThe savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David ThoreauBehavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that’s it. I don’t tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move.
Paulo CoelhoWell, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Christopher HitchensLive in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Will RogersIf you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.
Vivienne WestwoodHonesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.
Mark TwainHonesty is the best policy.
Benjamin FranklinFor my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
Abraham LincolnThere are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.
Richard M. NixonI feel Anglo-American.
Christopher HitchensNext to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.
John D. RockefellerI deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Dan QuayleYou must reward the kind of behavior that you want.
Jim MattisScience may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.
Helen KellerNo obligation to do the impossible is binding.
Marcus Tullius CiceroExtremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.
Joyce MeyerI’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.
Bill GatesWhat is permissible is not always honorable.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou don’t tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Margaret ThatcherThe arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Vivienne WestwoodOf two evils, choose neither.
Charles SpurgeonOne tells as few lies as possible only by telling as few lies as possible, and not by having the least possible opportunity to do so.
Franz KafkaIt is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.
VoltaireHonesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
PlatoI feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.
Jackie ChanThe superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
ConfuciusI happen to be a big fan of Western civilization; I think it beats the hell out of tyranny and starvation.
Jordan PetersonWith every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.
Michelle ObamaAll the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.
Jesus ChristConscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. MenckenThe time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.
Billy GrahamRight after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘
Noam ChomskySuccess consecrates the most offensive crimes.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFood is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.
Anthony BourdainIf you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.
Robert KiyosakiA state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Winston ChurchillIn truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
Thomas JeffersonI believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.
Abraham LincolnMankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George OrwellOnly a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.
Eleanor RooseveltWhy are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
Virginia WoolfHonor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur SchopenhauerMorality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry AdamsThe supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.
Dwight D. EisenhowerFor I can raise no money by vile means.
William ShakespeareNo people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
James BaldwinWithout feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
ConfuciusBecause 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.
Dalai LamaThere is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson