Richard P. Feynman Quotes

I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

My soul is not for sale.

I've always tried to keep my integrity and keep my autonomy.

Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

Freedom and liberty should not be sold for all the gold and silver in the world.

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values - and follow my own moral compass - then the only expectations I need to live up to are my own.

I don't particularly care what people think of me as long as I know what I'm doing is right.

I'm an honest person and don't lead my life on other people's terms.

The thing about Gambit is that he's a man who knows how to adapt to survive. He plays things by ear, depending on the situation, and never feels obligated to follow the rules, because the only rules that matter are his own sense of honor. Ultimately, that sense of honor includes 'doing no harm' - at least, not to the innocent.

Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.

I guard my treasures: my thoughts, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom.

I really like individualism based on truth.

For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.