Our attitude to these criticisms must be determined by our whole moral and emotional reaction to the future of international relations and the Peace of the World.

It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one could lie at crucial moments.

There is no worship for God without the honor of fellow man

When we live holy we will glorify self but when we glorify God we will live holy

{In the story of the Good Samaritan} everybody knows the robber is bad - - but doesn't Jesus also imply an indictment on the priest and Levite? . . . The priest and Levite are over here. They are...

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

... only one deaf God, who cannot see, remains - claiming all of creation as His own. If people would invest one hundredth of their devotion to this God in the living brothers and sisters amongst whom...

John Wesley: Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

The moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in the interests of an unfettered rationalism.

"... When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question: 'Does he think like a businessman?' Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. 'I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power?...

"Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk - the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?"

Alas, if all humans were wise and had more good will the world would be a paradise now it is mostly a hell

No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in...

You can't regulate integrity

True, fascism was not to be tolerated by decent people. But neither was racism or colonialism or slave labor camps—one or another of which was a characteristic of all of the Allied powers.

"The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations," he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. "The conduct of the German...

We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others...

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.

And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the...

{At the scene of a murder}The cats' bloodthirst was normal; it was the way God had made them. They were hunters, they killed for food and to train their young--well maybe sometimes for sport. But this...

...ethics were in most cases a burden that could be reasonably ignored in pursuit of necessity.

The three wealthiest people in the world own more than the GDP of forty-eight countries!

The persistence of the story of animal consent into the contemporary era tells of a human appreciation of the stakes, and a desire to do the right thing.

The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat differently than any other culture has ever been, but ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -...

A simple trick from the backyard astronomer: if you are having trouble seeing something, look slightly away from it. The most light-sensitive parts of our eyes {those we need to see dim objects} are...

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch {or don't}, care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and...

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because...