Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

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.

More law, less justice.

There are some loony people in this world!

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The guerrilla fighters should be required to go to bed and get up at fixed hours. Games that have no social function and that hurt the morale of the troops and the consumption of alcoholic drinks should both be prohibited.

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

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

Chastity – the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Well, they’re Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn’t dream of interrupting you at golf.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

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.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

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.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

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

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Liberty consists in the power of doing that which is permitted by the law.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

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

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.