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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

 

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The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

 

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In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

 

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Consider the following. We humans are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others' actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others' activities. For this reason it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others.

 

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Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts

 

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Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

 

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We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us; and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.

 

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.

 

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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.89

 

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The noblest worship is to make yourself as good and as just as you can.

 

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Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

 

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Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

 

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We have learned to say that the good must be extended to all of society before it can be held secure by any one person or any one class. But we have not yet learned to add to that statement, that unless all [people] and all classes contribute to a good, we cannot even be sure that it is worth having.

 

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Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

 

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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.

 

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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

 

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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

 

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Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the

 

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message to Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 16, 1901

 

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The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them