Bernard Joseph Saurin Quotes

The law often permits what honor prohibits.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

Respect for right conduct is felt by every body.

My moral compass is strong.

Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

I'm not any more moral than my neighbors.

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

What is left when honor is lost?

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

America does not want vulgarity and sexual exploitation to be our values and we do not want the world to think those are our standards. We want to be a better nation and a better people, with better standards.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Everything I do has a moral to it.

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.