Integrity, Honesty and Virtue Quotes
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“The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture aught below, is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.” Bertrand Russell
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“A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.” Albert Camus
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“Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.” Thomas Alva Edison
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“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people’s minds.” Samuel Adams
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“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.” Albert Einstein
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“Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.” Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC
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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” John Kenneth Galbraith
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“Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem, in my opinion, to characterize our age.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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”For every social wrong there must be a remedy. But the remedy can be nothing less than the abolition of the wrong.” Henry George (1839-1897)
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” George Orwell
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others.” Lewis Carroll
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“Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.” Thomas Carlyle
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“Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” Paulo Freire
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“What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.” Hannah Arendt, political philosopher, was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1906
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“When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe; he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.” Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason, 1793
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“By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy—indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.” William Osler (Canadian Physician, 1849-1919)
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“My generation’s apathy. I’m disgusted with it. I’m disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.” Kurt Cobain (1967-1994), American musician and singer of the grunge rock band Nirvana
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“Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand.” Bodie Thoene
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“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.” Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist
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May I remind the Nobel laureates who have signed this appeal of one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s main reasons for voluntarily declining the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964: “It is not the same thing if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre or if I sign Jean-Paul Sartre, Nobel Prize winner. A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution, even if it takes place in the most honorable form.”
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