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

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

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

We all have the duty to do good.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Honesty is the best policy.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

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.

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.

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

General consultant to mankind.

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

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.

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

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 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.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

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

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he’s an enemy to mankind.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

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.

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

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.

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

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I just don’t like killing creatures.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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 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.

The time is always right to do what is right.

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

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

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

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.