Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

All Americans want our government to have a moral compass.

Civilization depends on morality.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

Doing the right thing has power.

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

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

There's an ethical dimension to my life and all of our lives, from the time we get up in the morning to the time we sleep, including what we sleep on. So I don't separate my choices from ethical choices at any time.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

The time is always right to do what is right.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Each is indispensable to civilization. Without law, we should be at the mercy of the least scrupulous; without ethics, law could not exist.

The foundation for moral leadership is the truth.

Are we a people who put politics over integrity? Or are we a country of voters and leaders, men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, colleagues, humans who care about treating each other with basic dignity?

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

A good leader must be fair.

Democracy without morality is impossible.

Ethics are a key issue, and they're a key issue on the Democratic side, and all people have to be held to high standards.

Good morals lead to good laws.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Someone once asked, 'What is the difference between me and Saddam Hussein?' The answer is, 'I have a conscience and he doesn't.'

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others.