Quotes About Rectitude

Two wrongs can never make a right.

To live well and honorably and justly are the same thing.

It takes an awfully good man... to beat no man at all." - Tillie

The greatest possesion of man is character

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

The only thing to do when a man is wrong is to be right by ceasing to be wrong.

A real man is he whose goodness is a part of himself.

What makes a good man?

Show me a better man. Name one and I am answered; but do not point, as a disqualification, to the very facts which make this man fit beyond all others.

The people who must never have power are the humorless. To impossible certainties of rectitude they ally tedium and uniformity.

A consciousness of rectitude can be a terrible thing, and in those days I didn't just think that I was right: I thought that "we" (our group of International Socialists in particular) were being damn well proved right. If you have never yourself had the experience of feeling that you are yoked to the great steam engine of history, then allow me to inform you that the conviction is a very intoxicating one.

Here is a great man, and also a good one, though few men are ever both.

I knew Dana White as a good guy, a good square guy.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us.

Fallen from his lofty and heroic station; now finally restored to the perception of truth; weighed to earth by the recollection of his own deeds; consoled no longer by a consciousness of rectitude, for the loss of offspring and wife a loss for which he was indebted to his own misguided hand; Wieland was transformed at once into the man of sorrow?

Aver costretto la Natura a piegarsi alla linea retta, costituisce già una colpa che può costare all'umanità una più che giusta condanna a morte.

He looked down the slope and, at the base, in the shadow of the wall of the Park, he saw some human figures lying. Those venal and furtive loves filled him with despair. He gnawed the rectitude of his life; he felt that he had been outcast from life's feast.

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

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