To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

If you don’t trust the pilot, don’t go.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

I want to make something that is breathtaking. Of course, you can’t make something that is always breathtaking, or you would never be able to breathe. You would collapse.

When I feel I’m doing too much, I do less if I can.

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

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

Empire and liberty.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

An index is a great leveller.

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.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.