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

Do not create children until one is ready to be a creator and to spawn creators. It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in...

The easiest and cheapest trick for any leader is to take his country to war on false pretenses.

dangerous situation and we don't have any clear ethical guidance here. And did you notice, when you talk about the possible and the impossible, how strangely this is distributed? On the one hand, in...

And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word 'justice'. All the complex laws of man centered for her in one clear and simple law - the law of love and self - sacrifice taught us by Him...

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes: yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes,...

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...

Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.

Never will I sit motionless while directly or indirectly apology is made for the murder of the helpless. In securing any kind of peace, the first essential is to guarantee to every man the most...

I was scared. Do you know what it's like to hold someone else's life in your hands? It's like playing God. Can you think of anything scarier than that?

Evans understood that if Nakamura chose, it would be indiscriminate and their number would include the sickest - and perhaps the sickest, because they were of least use to Nakamura - and that all of...

You can't regulate integrity

Somehow it seems wrong to photograph a blind person. It's like stealing something valuable they don't even know they own.

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

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 human project, after freeing itself from the constraints of previous philosophies that believed in the possibility of an absolute truth, has come to envisage the 're-evaluation of all values,'...

"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

Good to evil seems evil

The Character Ethic taught that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles...

"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.

In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the...

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!