Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

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

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

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

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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.

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

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

There 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.

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

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.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

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

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

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

When in doubt tell the truth.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic human rights. And it’s one that’s easily corrected. The reason I say that is that many of the diseases that we treat around the world, I knew when I was a child. My mother was a registered nurse. And they no longer exist in our country.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.