George Monbiot Quotes

The superior man... does not set his mind either for or against anything, he will pursue whatever is right. The superior man thinks of virtue, the common man of comfort.

You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and you know it.

I think that you only occasionally have to play evil because everything you're doing is.

She said, 'Believe it or not, I used to be idealistic.' I asked her what 'idealistic' meant. 'It means you live by what you think is right.' 'You don't do that anymore?' 'There are questions I don't ask anymore.

Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

Do what is right, not what you think the high headquarters wants or what you think will make you look good.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing

To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

Justice shines in very smoky homes, and honors the righteous; but the gold-spangled mansions where the hands are unclean she leaves with eyes averted.

Nothing speaks louder or more powerfully than a life of integrity

The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God’s existence.

People do peculiar things in life and they do for whatever reason but I think one of the greatest crimes in life is when you lie.

I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Ethical existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.

So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant... it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.