It is right to give every man his due.
PlatoAn Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard ShawMany that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. TolkienThere 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.
Noam ChomskyThe man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas CarlyleLet me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.
Albert SchweitzerIt disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul SartreStates should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
George W. BushMany people will have nothing at the end of their working lives.
Robert KiyosakiThe difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
H. L. MenckenI look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
John F. KennedyIf you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?
Jordan PetersonSomeday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.
Fidel CastroIt’s hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
Bob DylanAbortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.
Pope FrancisThe future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. LewisGood men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
Ray BradburyIf my future were determined just by my performance on a standardized test, I wouldn’t be here. I guarantee you that.
Michelle ObamaYou do indeed have a past, but not now! And, yes, you have a future, but not now! You can consume your now with thoughts of ‚then‘ and ‚maybe,‘ but that will keep you from the inner peace you could experience.
Wayne DyerNo people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
Theodore RooseveltHe who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI 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.
George H. W. BushCowardice 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.Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
George EliotJust as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
BuddhaMankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
George OrwellThere is nothing good or evil save in the will.
EpictetusOn some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘
Martin Luther King, Jr.The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert SchweitzerThe role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
Albert CamusIt is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.
Hermann HesseFor my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
Benjamin FranklinWe’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Billy GrahamThe worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. MenckenMoral 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.
AristotleTo say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.
Joseph AddisonFear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich NietzscheI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensVirtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.
Albert CamusBetter than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.
BuddhaExpecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.
Billy GrahamThe 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.
David BowieLook back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
Marcus AureliusBut the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.
James BaldwinBlessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.
Baruch SpinozaThere are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Thomas SowellWe are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWhat I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
Barack ObamaSomeday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.
Marilyn MonroeI think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.
Conor McGregorThat old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David ThoreauThe word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
Gilbert K. ChestertonStudy the past, if you would divine the future.
ConfuciusWe are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard ShawThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
Harper LeeWe need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
Thich Nhat Hanh