Paul Tillich Quotes

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

So I think ethics is the broader thing that's less focused on prohibitions and is more perhaps looking at principles and questions and ideas about how to live your life.

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

Kant taught us that we should follow just those rules of conduct that we would want everybody to follow. Few find this generalization of The Golden Rule a great help.

All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.

The truth which has made us free will in the end make us glad also. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

The human being is to be respected and defended, not protected like a bird or a river.

The end does not justify the means. No one's rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

And every human being is precious.

When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.

I believe in the right to life.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.

Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techniques does not require moral people to abandon their beliefs. Rather, it is precisely during these difficult times that one's beliefs about life, justice and mercy become indispensible.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.

Human rights are being exalted over victory.

Public policy should be conducted on those principles which constitute virtue in private life.