Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

States are not moral agents.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

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

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

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

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Fear is the mother of morality.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

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

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

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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 think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

One cannot violate the promptings of one’s nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.