ethics
“Evil is the exercise of power to intentionally harm people in psychological or physical ways.”
“If an action involves little profit but much righteousness, do it. If it involves much profit but little righteousness, do not do it.”
“It is common opinion among us in regard to beauty and wisdom that there is an honourable and a shameful way of bestowing them.”
“He would refuse to gain any of the ends he set before him wrongfully; he would reduce his enemies to submission and take from them what was theirs by the rights of war; but tyrant or robber he would never be.”
“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”
“Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
“Conscience is a man's compass.”
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
“In the Art of Peace we never attack. An attack is proof that one is out of control.”
“As soon as you concern yourself with the "good" and "bad" of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter.”
“To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.”
“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.”
“The real sin — perhaps it is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which there is no remission — is the sin of heresy, the sin of thinking for oneself.”
“It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.”
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong.”
“Compassion is the basis of morality.”