Barbara Lee Quotes

It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.

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

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

It's Not sacrifice if it's someone else's life you're giving away, it's just evil.

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.

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

As in everything else, I must start with myself. That is: in all circumstances try to be decent, just, tolerant, and understanding, and at the same time try to resist corruption and deception. In other words, I must do my utmost to act in harmony with my conscience and my better self.

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold

We create an environment where it is alright to hate, to steal, to cheat, and to lie if we dress it up with symbols of respectability, dignity and love.

The world is ashamed of being virtuous.

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?