Robert Bolt Quotes

Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.

You can see how he changed on the surface. But at the core of it all, I think Superman has remained the same - a character with incredible powers but almost superhuman humility and restraint.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

Pride, envy, avarice—these sparks Have set on fire the hearts of all men.

These are the meats to abstain from- others' wealth, others' wives, slander, envy, covetousness and pride.

Reason perhaps teaches certain bourgeois virtues, but it does not make either heroes or saints.

People don't just want to be rich and successful, they want to be good.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

What's special about Superman is that he will always make the right choice.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.

What is the purpose of our might if we do not use it for good.

The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath; the deadliest poison is covetousness ;, the fiercest fire is hatred, ;, the darkest night is ignorance. The greatest gain is to give to others ;, the greatest loss is to greedily receive without gratitude ;, an invulnerable armor is patience ;, the best weapon is wisdom.