It's amazing to me how many people think that voting to have the government give poor people money is compassion. Helping poor and suffering people yourself is compassion. Voting for our government to use guns to give money to help poor and suffering people is immoral, self-righteous, bullying laziness.Penn Jillette
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.Friedrich Nietzsche
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.Booker T. Washington
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.Plato
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.Plato
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.Robert Greene
The mentor can be identified by four things: by restraining you from wrongdoing, guiding you towards good actions, telling you what you ought to know, and showing you the path to heaven.Gautama Buddha
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.Mahatma Gandhi
If you believe in justice, surely you believe in the hereafter, because this world is not just.Nouman Ali Khan
If you kill a cockroach, you're a hero. If you kill a butterfly, you're a villain. Morals have aesthetic criteria.Friedrich Nietzsche
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil, that takes religion.Steven Weinberg
Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.John von Neumann
I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.Clarence Darrow
In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.Theodore Roosevelt
From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.Harry A. Blackmun
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.Max Lucado
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.Steven Weinberg
The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!Eleanor Roosevelt
People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.Lemony Snicket
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.Montesquieu
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.Lord Byron
In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any country. It is useless to expatiate on its disadvantages.Robert E. Lee