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Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.

 

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The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

 

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Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.

 

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The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,

 

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Politics without principles.

 

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Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people

 

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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

 

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Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

 

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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

 

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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

 

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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

 

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It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late

 

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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

 

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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

 

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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

 

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Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

 

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The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.



Ralph Waldo Emerson:

 

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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.

 

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The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting.



Rene Descartes:

 

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The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.