John Wesley Quotes

It is not right to glory in the slain

If once we admit, be it for a single hour or in a single instance, that there can be anything more important than compassion for a fellow human being, then there is no crime against man that we cannot commit with an easy conscience.

Why wouldn't I help? What good reason do I have as a human being with power and a sense of empathy and morality, why wouldn't I do something?

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.

In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Everyone has a responsibility towards this larger family of man, but especially if you're privileged, that increases your responsibility.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

If you tie a man's hands there is nothing moral about his not committing murder.

There's a real moral imperative in being an organization that takes the time to sit and listen to the customers and the people they're serving.

The right things to do are those that keep our violence in abeyance; the wrong things are those that bring it to the fore.

That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed.

There's a couple of things you shouldn't do to other humans and you shouldn't say to other humans that Khal Drogo does.

Even in war, everyone deserves to be treated humanely.

If you subscribe to any moral code that says you should care for humanity, obviously black people will fit into that category.

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man.

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Compassion and justice are companions, not choices.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.

Duty does not consist in suffering everything, but in suffering everything for duty. Sometimes, indeed, it is our duty not to suffer.

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all men be restrained from acts of violence and even of unkindness against their fellow men by observing in them something which resembles the Savior of the World? If nothing else certainly, a human figure?