Oriana Fallaci Quotes

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

The point never to lose sight of is to be guided by the correct thing, as you see it. It's the only way to approach such profound matters and retain your integrity.

When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

We will not, on the altar of money, mortgage our conscience, mortgage our faith, mortgage our salvation.

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

If we leave our values at the door, we give up some of the moral glue that has held our country together

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

I have a clean conscience and ideals that I am willing to defend.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

When knowledge is cut off from traditional values, it becomes disastrous.

Our strength lies in spiritual concepts. It lies in public sensitivities to evil. Our greatest danger is not from invading armies. Our dangers are that we may commit suicide from within by complaisance with evil, or by public tolerance of scandalous behavior.

Temporary deviations from fundamental principles are always more or less dangerous. When the first pretext fails, those who become interested in prolonging the evil will rarely be at a loss for other pretexts.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.

I thought deeply about this. I ended up concluding that the worst thing that could possibly happen as we get big and as we get a little more influence in the world is if we change our core values and start letting it slide, I can't do that. I'd rather quit.

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

I would say that today, dishonesty is the rule, and honesty the exception. It could be, statistically, that more people are honest than dishonest, but the few that really control things are not honest, and that tips the balance.