Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Bertrand RussellI follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
Lou HoltzI hate the rock music tradition. I can’t bear it!
Brian EnoTraditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.
Joyce MeyerConvictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.
BonoMy principles are more important than the money or my title.
Muhammad AliIf a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
SocratesTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensWhat men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H. L. MenckenA man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Albert CamusAre creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma GandhiWe have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.
Charles SpurgeonNo legacy is so rich as honesty.
William ShakespeareWhat troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
Kurt VonnegutTrue patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
Abraham LincolnJust as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Brian TracyTruly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
William ShakespeareReligion is not going to come up with any new arguments.
Christopher HitchensTo keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
Katharine HepburnEveryone looks at your watch and it represents who you are, your values and your personal style.
Kobe BryantThe truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard ShawI’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.
Jimmy CarterI love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da VinciCowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Brian EnoThere is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
Billy GrahamDuty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthurI am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
Narendra ModiAll conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnThanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma BombeckI’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.
Brian EnoTo believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.
Mahatma GandhiI have spent every New Year’s Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It’s a place with meaning for me.
Paulo CoelhoYou can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.
Dolly PartonIf you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
Stephen HawkingA man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis BaconWhen you stand for something, you’ve got to stand for it all the way, not half way.
Kevin GatesTo summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.
Noam ChomskyWe become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy CarterOccasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.
Noam ChomskyThe formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheUnless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
EpictetusTo appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
Vivienne WestwoodWhether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.
Jordan PetersonThe Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.
Billy GrahamFor I can raise no money by vile means.
William ShakespeareIt is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas JeffersonThe strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.
ConfuciusThe spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.
Stephen CoveyI am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham LincolnI never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Fidel CastroModesty is the color of virtue.
DiogenesIf we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
Noam ChomskyYou notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.
Christopher HitchensMany religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
Russell M. NelsonI die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.
VoltaireI tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.
Clint Eastwood