Lady Randolph Churchill Quotes

There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

I've always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.

Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We always look for justice in this world, but there is no such thing as justice. Jesus says — Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

The glory of the good is in their consciences, and not in the tongues of men.

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

It's hard to explain," said Brutha. "But I think it's got something to do with how people should behave... you should do things because they're right. Not because gods say so. They might say something different another time.

I am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.

There is some lack either of sense or of character in one who becomes involved in difficulties with the worthless or the vicious.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

The measure of and self-congratulation for our own intelligence should have its basis in our moral behavior as well as our smarts.

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.

I have learned that a clear conscience, or a legal opinion, does not make you ethically bullet proof.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

Conscience is the highest of all Courts.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

I feel that bad people exist everywhere. I've always maintained that it is not the industry that is good or bad: it's the people.

Conscience. Conscience is the ultimate measure of a man.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty