Albert Camus Quotes

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

I should not deal with things that aren't founded on ethical principles, because that's not who I am as a human being.

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Ethical is 'I'll wait and do what's right even in the hardest times and even if I have to give up gains to do it.'

I'm a firm believer that character is highly overrated. Character is a trick that we do with the audience's collusion.

His conduct still right with his argument wrong.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else.

A big part of honesty is self-discipline, personal resolve, and taking pride in who you are as a person and what each action means to your character.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

We don't claim to have perfect morals, but at least we have a huge area of things that, while legal, are beneath us. We won't do them. Currently, there's a culture in Americathat says that anything that won't send you to prison is OK.

... men of highest genius have been too frequently of extremely shaky morals.

I threw my whole life and lived my life in a certain way to make sure that I would never violate any law.. certainly never any criminal laws.. and always maintained that most important to me was my integrity, was my character, were my values.

In the end, your integrity is all you've got.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

The greatest work in all the world is the building of men and women of character. Without character there is not much that is worthwhile.

No matter what is the environment around you, it is always possible to maintain your brand of integrity

There is no surer road to destruction than prosperity without character.

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?

And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

Integrity, a standard of personal morality and ethics, is not relative to the situation you happen to find yourself in and doesn't sell out to expediency. Its short supply is getting shorter - but without it, leadership is a facade.