Nawal El Saadawi Quotes

If we can't get back to principles and integrity and it's reduced just the interest of calculation and Machiavellian manipulation, we are in deep trouble.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

He who thinks that anything can be accomplished with money will himself likely to do anything for money.

Under every stone lurks a politician

The first sign of corruption in a society ... is that the ends justify the means.

If you do not know how to lie, cheat and steal, turn your attention to politics and learn.

The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

He that departs with his own honesty For Vulgar , doth it too dearly buy.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the brain wave, with material thoughts from the crib to the grave.

A satyagrahi may not ride two horses, truth and untruth, at the same time, nor, to change the metaphor, trim his sail to catch every breeze as you do in the name of communism.

I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is money. I am so money greedy that for twenty-five bucks a day and expenses, mostly gasoline and whisky, I do my thinking myself, what there is of it; I risk my whole future, the hatred of the cops . . . I dodge bullets and eat saps, and say thank you very much, if you have any more trouble, I hope you'll think of me, I'll just leave one of my cards in case anything comes up.

What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.

What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.