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

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

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

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

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.

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

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

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

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

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

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

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.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

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

Sense perceptions can be and often are false and deceptive, however real they may appear to us. Where there is realization outside the senses, it is infallible. It is proved not by extraneous evidence but in the transformed conduct and character of those who have felt the real presence of God within.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

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

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Our intention creates our reality.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

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