C. S. Lewis Quotes

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.

The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Leadership consists of character and strategy. If you can't have both, opt for character.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

Ethics is inescapable.

You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

America should stand for more than just wealth.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

Honor is the mysticism of legality

You can't slice up morals.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.