Base Actions Quotes

While any one is base, none can be entirely free and noble.

This I hold to be the chief office of history, to rescue virtuous actions from the oblivion to which a want of records would consign them, and that men should feel a dread of being considered infamous in the opinions of posterity, from their depraved expressions and base actions.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

You think the end justifies the means, however vile. I tell you: the end is the means by which you achieve it. Today's step is tomorrow's life. Great ends cannot be attained by base means. You've proved that in all your social upheavals. The meanness and inhumanity of the means make you mean and inhuman and make the end unattainable.

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

Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions.

Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones.

Servile, and base, and mercenary, is the notion of Christian practice among the bulk of nominal Christians. They give no more than they dare not with-hold; they abstain from nothing but what they must not practise.