7 William Saroyan Quotes on Ethics

William Saroyan quotes on ethics

36. It seemed to me that I had no right to burn a book I hadn't even read.

69. The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.

112. You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.

127. Neither love nor hate, nor any order of intense adherence to personal involvement in human experience, may be so apt to serve the soul as this freedom and this necessity to be kind.

143. Nobody seemed to be interested in anything except making money.

157. Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world.

171. I did my best, and let me urge you to do your best, too. Isn't it the least we can do for one another?