Paul Keating Quotes

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

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

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

Every uniform corrupts one's character.

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

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

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.'

My future is righteousness.

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

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

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

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

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

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.

Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history.

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.