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

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

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

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Racism is real in this country.

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

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

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

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Evil is whatever distracts.

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

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

I do not pilfer victory.

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.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

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

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

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.

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.

Freedom is not enough.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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

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.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Erudition – that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic – is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.