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

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

A 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.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

‚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!

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

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

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

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

For 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.

Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies – or else? The chain reaction of evil – hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars – must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

The challenge for me as an actor is if you become a celebrity, you don’t meet strangers anymore. And strangers are where we have our anonymity. And I believe it’s essential for the soul to be anonymous, especially if you’re going to be an actor.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

Evil is whatever distracts.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

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

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

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.

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

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

Many 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.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.