Ray Dalio Quotes

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

I do not believe with the Rochefoucaults and the Montaignes that fourteen out of fifteen men are rogues. I believe a great abatement from that proportion may be made in favor of general honesty.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

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

Had courage, wisdom, and reason always prevailed in people, there would not have been oppressions and oppressors.

Humanity is lost because people have abandoned using their conscience as their compass.

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

I don't want to hurt people's feelings if I can help it. I don't want anyone unnecessarily humiliated, but I say whatever stands between you and justice must give way; and if you have to walk over reputations — and if they become pavement you cannot help it.

Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

I suppose that an honest man shines more in politics than he does elsewhere.

It is not true that people of high principle are ill-suited for politics.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

I try to do the right things. I was always raised that if you do the right thing and obey the law, you won't have problems. I really believe that. But that's just me; that's what I've tried to do because that's how my mother raised me.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

I firmly believe there are no bad people.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.