The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Whoever has witnessed another’s ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

I don’t do drugs. I am drugs.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

I trust my taste. I trust it completely and I always have done, and I’ve always thought it isn’t that different from everybody else’s.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

We human beings are strange creatures and still reserve the right to think for ourselves.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

People have so many hang-ups about how other people live their lives. People always want to keep you in a little box, or they need to label you and fix you in time and location.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?