Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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?

We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

I do not pilfer victory.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

My experience with power, you can maintain it, or you get it taken from you. You get you some newfound power and go crazy, and it get taken from you quick.

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

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

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

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

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

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

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Temptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

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.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

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

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

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

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

By that sin fell the angels.

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.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

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

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

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?

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.