Norman Schwarzkopf Quotes

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

There’s nothing more important than people’s conscience and there’s nothing that needs more protection.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

Ethics to me is very important.

One of my weaknesses is that I actually have a conscience.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

The time is always right to do what is right.

I was raised to understand and know the difference between right and wrong.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

Now I come to 75 years of age, I think what's most important in life is your conscience. If you told a lie and made other people suffer, I think that's very difficult when you reach this age.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.

The foundation for moral leadership is the truth.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

What is done cannot be effaced. We have to act upon a moral field prepared for us ...

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.