Charlotte Lennox Quotes

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

My moral standing is lying down.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

He [William Gladstone] made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice.

What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

I never condemn wrongdoing in any area.

She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest.

What passes in the world for talent or dexterity or enterprise is often only a want of moral principle. We may succeed where others fail, not from a greater share of invention, but from not being nice in the choice of expedients.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want to do and what we ought to do. Integrity establishes the ground rules for resolving these tensions. it determines who we are and how we will respond before the conflict even appears. Integrity welds what we say, think, and do, into a whole person so that permission is never granted for one of these to be out of sync.