Katherine Anne Porter Quotes

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

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

Don't violate your own code of values and ethics, but don't waste energy trying to make other people violate theirs.

People will judge you according to your own convictions.

There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.

The one thing I say, I will invest in anything - I don't care what it is - as long as it doesn't cut across my ethical code, because at the end of the day I want to be able to live with myself. I want to feel proud of what I do.

A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

Our system is not only based on rules, but a series of self-restraints that we won't be as barbaric as we could be in competing for power because we know if we're all barbaric as we could be, the whole country and the whole society falls apart.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

I don't think I have the manipulation gene in me.

I don't ever cross the line. I step right up to it. I put my toes on the line, but I don't ever cross that line. There are some barriers you just don't cross - you don't talk about religion; you don't talk about race. Those are lines I will never cross.

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.

You follow what you think is right. There are lines that I won't cross.

I believe that being honest to oneself and one's work is all that matters.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

I continually remind myself to live by a code. It's very important to me. I've got a bad temper.

I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood.

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.