Telling lies is a really terrible thing. These days, lies and silence are the two greatest sins in human society you might say. In reality, we tell lots of lies, and we often break into silence....
Perhaps it is better to be a machine that does its duty than a flesh - and - blood person who will not, for a dead truth is better than a live falsehood.
If we in Nigeria and Africa generally are to experience a true national transformation, there must be numerous movements championing the cause for truth and honesty in every aspect of our daily...
Greatness is not always good.
Can somebody please explain how humans can be so inhumane?
This is what you have to ask yourself: Do you want to be good, or just seem good? Do you want to be good to yourself and others? Do you care about other people, always, sometimes, never? Or only when...
My view is that what morality boils down to is, 'Don't harm, and do help.' And now the question is, 'Can creatures like chickens and cows be harmed?' And the answer is, 'Of course they can.'...
For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality - it is merely an opinion.
Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?
Abba Marcius said, 'If you rebuke someone and do it with anger, you have allowed a passion to control you. You have not saved anyone and have destroyed yourself'.
There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags.
A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.
But those who are incapable of pitying animals are, as a matter of fact, incapable of pitying men. A physician who would cut a living rabbit in pieces -- laying bare the nerves, denuding them with...
Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you; if your kindness reaches the undeserving, take joy in your compassion.
It is not Love that is the crime and it is not Love that is the sin. It is the absence of it!
Majority does not mean Right. Minority does not mean Wrong. Always maintain a stand for what is right.
Imagine a world without words! Imagine a world without thoughts! Imagine a world without actions! If one day, God should mute all words, thoughts and actions, the world will look so different! If we...
People are not like a business. You can't buy and sell them like so much property. You can't lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.
No good will remain unrewarded, if not by men, then by God.
The only reward of virtue is virtue
Honesty is not always the best policy when it hurts the person you care about the most and pushes them away.
There are three qualities that make someone a true professional. These are the ability to work unsupervised, the ability to certify the completion of a job or task and, finally, the ability to behave...
To demonstrate integrity, a person must have the courage to consistently adhere to a strong ethical code, even in difficult situations.
When you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.
I don't think anything can behave as unintelligently as intelligence.
Find a right and a beautiful idea
When there is no owner, there will be an abuser.
What is sin? All wrong doing is a sin.
Whenever you hurt someone, you bring torment into your own life.
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.
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...