Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-20] of 169 Character quotesCharacter QuotesCharacter Next 20 quotes I answered that the die was now cast; I had passed the Rubicon. Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.~ John Adams Society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.~ John Adams Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have... a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean the characters and conduct of their rulers.~ John Adams Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.~ John Quincy Adams It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.~ Aeschylus The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.~ Mohammed Ali Do whatever you can to capture, or recapture, your life spark - unless it harms others, in which case suffer with as much happiness as you can muster. Your nobility of spirit will spark itself.~ Corri Alius Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.~ James Allen The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel The test of every religious, political, or educational system, is the man which it forms. If a system injures the intelligence it is bad. If it injures the character it is vicious. If it injures the conscience it is criminal.~ Henri Frederic Amiel If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship he would keep it in port forever.~ Thomas Aquinas What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.~ Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.~ Hannah Arendt You have all the characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.~ Aristophanes In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.~ Ben H. Bagdikian Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.~ Alan Barth Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Open discussion of many major public questions has for some time now been taboo. We can’t open our mouths without being denounced as racists, misogynists, supremacists, imperialists or fascists. As for the media, they stand ready to trash anyone so designated.~ Saul Bellow Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.~ Henri-Louis Bergson He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.~ George Berkeley Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print