Charlie Munger Quotes

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is right

Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

Life is moral responsibility.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

You should just do the right thing.

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Whatever else there may be in our nature, responsibility toward truth is one of its attributes.

The scientist is not responsible for the laws of nature. It is his job to find out how these laws operate. It is the scientist's job to find the ways in which these laws can serve the human will. However, it is not the scientist's job to determine whether a hydrogen bomb should be constructed, whether it should be used, or how it should be used. This responsibility rests with the American people and with their chosen representatives.

As for academics, I do not see why their responsibilities as moral agents should differ in principle from the responsibilities of others; in particular, others who also enjoy a degree of privilege and power, and therefore have the responsibilities that are conferred by those advantages.

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

We make every effort to see that our actions live up to our words and be vigilant with regards to our behavior.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.

I do believe that leaders have to be held to a higher standard, especially Christian leaders. I put myself in that camp.