Howard Zinn Quotes

I try to do the right thing.

There's no statute of limitations on doing what's right.

History shows that Americans believe in doing the right thing.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong. That's how I live my life.

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

Live with honor and follow your conscience.

Without integrity and conscience we lose our freedom.

My job is to do what's right. And that's what I'm going to try and do.

Integrity means you do what you do because it is right and not just fashionable or politically correct.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Throughout my life, I have always tried to do what is right.

You must always do what you feel is right.

I do what I think is right.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

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

Everything I do has a moral to it.

I'm just doing what my conscience asks me to do.