Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Not everything is for sale; not everything is about money.

Whoever saved a life, it would be as if he saved the life of all mankind

This country will never sacrifice humanity in order to carry out any policy.

Patriotism is a noble feeling insofar as it approaches that which is purely human, but the very reverse the further it is removed therefrom.

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.

Better that the nation grow poor for a cause we can honor, than grow rich for an end that is unknown.

Humanity is more important to me than talent... if there's a choice to make, I'll go humanity over talent every time.

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice.

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

There are some things to die for but none to kill for.

What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

It is fair to judge peoples by the rights they will sacrifice most for.

What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.

I stand on principle where many people stand on money.

Peace is not to be purchased by the sacrifice of truth.

Which would be worse - to live as a monster, or to die as a good man?

To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.

You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait!

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

History may defeat the Christ but it nevertheless points to him as the law of life.

What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.

Does veganism require a “sacrifice”? Yes. It requires that you give up that which you never had any right to in the first place.

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.