Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

The human heart is the same the world over.

Death wasn’t part of God’s original plan for humanity, and the Bible calls death an enemy – the last enemy to be destroyed.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

You’ve all seen over the last eight years what President Obama means to this country. He is the embodiment of honor, resolve, and character – one of the finest presidents we have ever had.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Morality is contraband in war.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

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.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I am just one human being.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.