Richard M. Weaver Quotes

Idealism without realism is impotent. Realism without idealism is immoral.

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Honor is the mysticism of legality

What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?" "I don't know. My… my code of morals, perhaps." "Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?" "Comprehension.

I think in general the ends do not justify the means.

America should stand for more than just wealth.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis.

Economics and ethics have little in common.

In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

You can't slice up morals.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

Religion is ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling

Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

The hero can never be a relativist.

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience.

The true idealist pursues what his heart says is right in a way that his head says will work.

The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.