ethics
“I have promises to keep.”
“There never was a good war, or a bad peace.”
“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.”
“Love is an activity; it is not a passive affect. It is a 'standing in,' not a 'falling for.'”
“Human kindness can be found in all groups, even those which as a whole it would be easy to condemn.”
“No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.”
“It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.”
“Who knows, perhaps one day people will listen more to the little piece of God, which we call a conscience, than to their own desires!”
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
“My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous, which is not exactly the same as bad.”
“Who knows, perhaps one day people will listen more to the piece of God which we call a conscience than to their own desires.”
“You can always—always—give something, even if it is only kindness.”
“No one has ever become poor by giving.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world.”
“As for my politics, you will have guessed that I am not a Fascist.”
“The strategic adversary is fascism… the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behavior.”
“My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.”
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed.”
“What is beautiful is moral. That is all there is to it.”