Jack Kerouac Quotes

If we sit by and become complacent and put our heads in the sand, we're complicit.

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

I have no love for those who consider themselves 'good people' but stand idly by as the world crumbles around them. It's not enough to personally not do damage. If you're present as someone else destroys what's around you and you do nothing, you helped them.

Be moderate in everything, including moderation.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

There is moderation even in excess.

What do you expect me to do about it?

You either love or you hate. You live in the middle, you get nothing.

You've got to take responsibility for your actions.

Everyone talks about moderation. How about some moderation in moderation?

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.

The accomplice to the crime of corruption is frequently our own indifference.

When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

Be not righteous overmuch.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality

Moderation in all things..

… vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well

The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There's not one of them which won't make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it isn't. If you leave out justice you'll find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity" and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.