The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I am not some goddess that dropped down from the sky to sing pop music; I am not some extra-incredible human person that needs to be told how wonderful they are all day and kissed.

The healthy man does not torture others – generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Justice is truth in action.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

The lie is a condition of life.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

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.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

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

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

I mean, people aren’t continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don’t want to. We aren’t destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

You can’t trust very many people.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.

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

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The 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.