False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

I do not pilfer victory.

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

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Justice is truth in action.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

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

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I’ve got nothing to hide.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

A ‚No‘ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‚Yes‘ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

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.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

The soul is healed by being with children.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

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?

Lying is not only saying what isn’t true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

I’d rather tell you how I really feel.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

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

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!