Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It’s best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

History is written by the victors.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

I certainly respect the belief of the Hobby Lobby owners. On the other hand, they have no constitutional right to foist that belief on the hundreds and hundreds of women who work for them who don’t share that belief.

Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

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

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

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

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

It is right to give every man his due.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Life is our dictionary.

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.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

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

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.