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

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.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

General consultant to mankind.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

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

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

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.

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

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.

I don’t use any animal products, both because of ethical and environmental and climate reasons.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

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

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

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

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

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

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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.

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.

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.

I just don’t like killing creatures.

Many people seem to have this double moral. They say one thing and then do another thing. They say that the climate crisis is very important and yet they do nothing about it.

Being a vegan is a first-world phenomenon, completely self-indulgent.

My future is righteousness.

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.

Mankind, the spirit of the earth, the synthesis of individuals and peoples, the paradoxical conciliation of the element with the whole, and of unity with multitude – all these are called Utopian, and yet they are biologically necessary.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

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

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

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.‘

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Because I was suspicious of the traditional Christian church, I tended to tar them all with the same brush. That was a mistake, because there are righteous people working in a whole rainbow of belief systems – from Hasidic Jews to right-wing Bible Belters to charismatic Catholics.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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.

True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness.

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.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

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.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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.

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

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.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

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

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.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

I am a just man.

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.

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

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.