Charlotte Bronte Quotes

I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Jealousies and rivalries have been my themes, and checks and balances as their antidotes, till I am ashamed to repeat the words.

States are supposed to have interests but no principles. I have principles but no interests.

it is no easy task to find the middle.

Peace has to be solved equally.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

There can be no compromise on moral principles.

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour ... If at my convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

It doesn't make sense to have to do the wrong thing in order to do the right thing.

The devil is compromise.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

Peace is produced by war.

Peace is much more precious than a piece of land... let there be no more wars.

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.

That which neither weapon nor flame could accomplish will be achieved by a sweet speaking tongue in council.

In the course of my lifetime, that world went from violence to a kind of peace.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The imperative is to define what is right and do it.