Andre Weil Quotes

My future is righteousness.

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

Actually, no one is born honest or corrupt.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

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

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community.

You can't legislate morality.

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

There is no right in acting.

Conventionality is not morality.

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

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

Man may aspire to virtue, but he cannot reasonably aspire to truth.

Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

You say: "Here are persons who are lacking in morality or religion," and you turn to the law. But law is force. And need I point out what a violent and futile effort it is to use force in the matters of morality and religion?

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

One cannot but regret the deliberate absence of every transcendental moral reference in governing the so-called developed society.