George McGovern Quotes

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

There is no wrong time to do the right thing.

While one is asleep one cannot do anything that is good. Virtue is impossible in unconsciousness, only sin is possible. Unconsciousness is the source of sin.

I try to do the right thing.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives.

If I do not respond to some situation, my conscience kills me. I believe in permissible violence, not necessarily non-violence.

I never hurt anybody in this business, ever.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

Faith is the substance of whatever it is that we hope for. The important thing is that we teach that faith is connected to good works and responsibility.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.

Killing is unavoidable but is nothing to be proud of

Life is moral responsibility.

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

...guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.

I never shot nobody I didnt have to.

That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.

As the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

Guilt is what separates humans from animals.

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.