Frank Miller Quotes

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

Hypocrisy is not a way of getting back to the moral high ground. Pretending you're moral, saying your moral is not the same as acting morally.

There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

All Americans want our government to have a moral compass.

Virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government.