Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.
Dalai LamaThere is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma GandhiSay what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. MenckenTo live outside the law, you must be honest.
Bob DylanI think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.
Matthew McConaugheyI don’t like freeloaders; I don’t like people who are negative.
Anthony HopkinsA business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
Henry FordSilence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.
Taylor SwiftPolygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
Elbert HubbardSin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
Baruch SpinozaIntegrity has no need of rules.
Albert CamusWe are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis BaconCan anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Blaise PascalRightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‚within the limits of the law‘ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas JeffersonSo act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel KantPlease think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.
Haruki MurakamiIt’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard ShawWe all have done something unethical.
John C. MaxwellThe violence in the Bible is appalling.
Christopher HitchensThe way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
AristotleThe only shame is to have none.
Blaise PascalWhen the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.
Richard M. NixonOne who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
SocratesThe opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
VoltaireWhat is permissible is not always honorable.
Marcus Tullius CiceroHonor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. MenckenI never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Frank ZappaOf all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
AristotleAn act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William JamesLet reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap – let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
Abraham LincolnRegardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.
Billy GrahamI do not pilfer victory.
Alexander the GreatWe judge people in areas where we’re vulnerable to shame, especially picking folks who are doing worse than we’re doing.
Brene BrownLife is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.
Kevin GatesIf people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinI believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.
Mr. TFear is the mother of morality.
Friedrich NietzschePeople seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
Bob DylanChildren have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
James BaldwinThe good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest HemingwayAbortion is clearly wrong.
Jordan PetersonI’ve learned people are watching, so don’t do nothing stupid.
Bruno MarsLaw and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.
Jordan PetersonIt is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.
Theodore RooseveltTruth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
Thomas JeffersonThe 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. MenckenThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkePeople who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.
Wayne DyerThe role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
Albert CamusAn individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.
Noam ChomskyI 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. BushThose who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.
AristotleInsanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich NietzscheYou cannot talk about race without talking about privilege. And when people start talking about privilege, they get paralyzed by shame.
Brene BrownA President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIf you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
Noam ChomskyIs it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi