Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women’s Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women’s rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of inhumanity.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

States are not moral agents.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

To be is to do.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

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

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.