William Sanderson Quotes

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics.

I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.

Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

There is only one Army in which you serve. When that identity is gone, it is gone forever.

I served my country in uniform for 26 years.

Joining the military is not to be taken lightly. You're putting every part of yourself at risk, not just your body but your moral and spiritual centre.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.

That's a central part of philosophy, of ethics. What do I owe to strangers? What do I owe to my family? What is it to live a good life? Those are questions which we face as individuals.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

But it's been a great, humbling - and I've been very honored to have the opportunity to serve and to lead and to be the representative of our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are in Washington. And it's been the greatest honor of my life.

I've always had this core belief in public service. Even before I became a citizen, I volunteered in the Army.

Human life has meaning only to that degree and as long as it is lived in the service of humanity.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.