John Kenneth Galbraith Quotes

Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

You can't slice up morals.

Most people don't base their morality on religion in spite what they say. If you ask people, "If you didn't believe in God, would you go out and kill your neighbour?" Most people will say, "No".

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

Don't run your life by what's legal or illegal. Run your life based on what's right or wrong.

Conscience doth make cowards of us all.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.

Morality is a test of our conformity rather than our integrity.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

If you had to pick between being moral and successful, obviously I'd choose to be moral. However if you can choose both, will you choose both? I'd say definitely.

We shall not hold the dangerous axiom that 'truth is the best policy,' because policy is but a means to an end; and truth is an end, not a means.

I can only focus on doing what's right.

You have to make your choices however you see fit and just keep your integrity as best you can.