Victor Hugo Quotes

There is no idol more debasing than the worship of money.

Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry--the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

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

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

Those who claim they are the prisoners of the laws of economics, only testify that they are prisoners of the idol.

No one seems to care for anything but about money today. Nothing is held of account except the bank accounts. Quality, education, civic distinction, public virtue seem each year to be valued less and less.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Gaming is among the surest means to debauch a people, and draw them from God and his worship to superstition and idolatry.

The money doesn't buy me, and it never will.

I was taught growing up that you always do what you believe.

When they treat you bad, you just got to take care of your pride, no matter what.

Whenever we accept an idea as authority instead of as instrument, an idol is set up. We worship the plough, and not the fruit.

In the race of men is much greed and envy; but of truth, little.

Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.

There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.

Above all things, one should maintain his self-respect, and there is but one way to do that, and that is to live in accordance with your highest ideal.

Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness — as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne — and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators.

A loving God who has no wrath is no God. He is an idol of our own making as much as if we carved Him out of stone.