We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions helping my child to gain admission.
The virtue of a man ought to be measured not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his every-day conduct.
A good action is never lost
Hard work makes us strong, behavior and intentions make us unique.
The principles that guide your decisions as a leader must not be contradictory to your personal values. Your personal values must lay the strong foundation on which you build your leadership tenets....
Treat others like your life depends on it.. because it does.
It is an honorable charge to shine the light and stand up for what is true, just, and right. Guardians of Light know innately that whenever we insert honor, love, and truth into any experience, we...
Given the option, would you rather choose the right path, even though it's difficult, or the easy route, knowing that you'll be compromising your standards?
Let the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil fall, soundless in the moldering woods.
If we choose to, we can live in a world of comforting illusions. We can allow ourselves to be deceived by false realities. Or we can use them to hide our true intentions.
Erik wondered if they saw the irony of such a tiny complex expecting to find the cure from the very lives they minimized in comparison to the whole. If such small, little lives mattered not, how could...
Worship Allah and associate nothing with Him, and to parents do good, and to relatives, orphans, the needy, the near neighbor, the neighbor farther away, the companion at your side, the traveler, and...
Progress is measured by the speed at which we destroy the conditions that sustain life.
Taking a life, is not worth getting life in prison.
Peace is a process - a way of solving problems.
Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that "it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil." Aristotle...
I think ethical ambivalence is a kind of inoculation, a way of excusing yourself in advance for something you actually want to do. No offense.
The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most...
Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.
Just do the next right thing. Then repeat indefinitely.
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
Guilt - - if there was any guilt - - spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the...
Having your own church doesn't make you a good guy. It only makes you tax - exempt.
There is not a crime, there is not a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.
The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle {achievable only through government}.
Truth leads to good deeds, and good deeds lead to Paradise. Falsehood leads to evil deeds, and evil deeds lead to the Fire.
We can assume that those who 'have it all' and express an arrogant and greedy attitude, appears to be unthankful.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
His high spiced wares were made to sell, and they sold; and his thousands of readers could as rationally charge their delight in filth upon him, as a glutton can shift upon his cook the responsibility...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...