William Faulkner Quotes

So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

They call me "a teacher, a fomenter of violence." I would say point blank, "That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

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

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, and kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

The foundation for moral leadership is the truth.

May the foundation of our new constitution be justice, Truth and Righteousness.

Do not take bribes, for they blind the clear-eyed and upset the pleas of the just.

No matter how mendacious elites may be, they cannot extinguish the forces for good in the world.

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

If you ask me what is at the core of what I write, it isn't about 'rights', it's about justice. Justice is a grand, beautiful, revolutionary idea.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

I never took a bribe. This is the truth, and there is no other.

Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar.

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

No lie can live forever.