John Dunne Quotes

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.

I'm not afraid of any kind of job, I'm not afraid to play any kind of role, as long as it doesn't compromise my morals.

Integrity in the Moment of Choice: Quality of life depends on what happens in the space between stimulus and response.

I've lost a lot. I've lost money, and my reputation has taken a hit for taking the high road to protect my dignity, to protect children, and for other good causes. But I don't think there's ever too steep a price for doing the right thing.

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits.

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent human being, but I'm realistic to know I don't know.

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no.

He [William Gladstone] made his conscience not his guide but his accomplice.

I did not clash with the National Party. I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins.

Unless the character is suffering from tremendous self doubt or pangs of conscience, you have to get morally behind the character and their values.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

As I heard out people who had done others wrong, I'd often wonder how a human allows his or her better judgement to override their conscience. When I share these feelings with my friends, they say, 'Everyone isn't like you.' But I think it's easy to assert your better feelings and not allow the darker side to dominate your personality.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

And is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification

A pure heart won't get us out of conflict and controversy. It may well be the very thing that gets us into it.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains, rather than do an immoral act.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.