What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

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

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to God is a child of God and belongs to Him. And in Christ, we are made right with God, we are His righteousness, and we have the power of Christ in us to live right.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

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.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: ‚War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.‘

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

My future is righteousness.

Honesty is the best policy.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

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

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

All mankind love a lover.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

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.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.