Hugh Hefner Quotes

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

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.

I've never lied. I think I've lived a moral life.

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

I myself have constantly refused to print anything that might countenance vice or promote immorality, though … I might have gotten much money.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Personally, I have never considered myself corrupt or seen the need to be so. People are judged as what they are perceived to be.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

I'm actually a pretty decent human being, and when I'm home I'm straight as an arrow.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

The just man walks in his integrity

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

A clean and sensitive conscience, a steady and scrupulous integrity in small things as well as large, is the most valuable of all possessions, to a nation as to an individual.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.