Alan Keyes Quotes

I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.

You can’t set aside … values in the name of political expediency.

Power and privilege constantly corrupt the soul. I have to remind myself of this every day.

No matter how healthy a man's morals may be when he enters the White House, he comes out again with a pock-marked soul.

Compromise today is too often applauded simply for itself. The cost of compromise to principles and real lives doesn't seem to matter.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

I have no wish to win an award that would be tainted.

For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?

There is no praise in being upright, where no one can, or tries to corrupt you.

Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.

Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

There were few who preferred honor to money.

I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience.

Men find happiness neither by means of the body nor through possessions, but through uprightness and wisdom.

Honour sits smiling at the sale of truth.

Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.

I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.

Integrity is the light that shines from a disciplined conscience.

...mementos of this world, in which the things worth being were so easily exchanged for the things worth having.

Don't throw away your conscience.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

The principal thing in this world is to keep one's soul aloft.

We worship money instead of honour.