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

My future is righteousness.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

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.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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.

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

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.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

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.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

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.

The atom bomb was no ‚great decision.‘ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I am a just man.

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.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Honesty is the best policy.

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.

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

The time is always right to do what is right.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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

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.

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

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

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

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

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.

We all have the duty to do good.

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

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

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

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

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

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

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

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

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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

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

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?