Patriotism cannot be our final spiritual shelter; my refuge is humanity. I will not buy glass for the price of diamonds, and I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.
Liberals are more upset when a tree is chopped down than when a child is aborted.
A society that feels life is the most precious thing [jars against] a society that prefers death over theft, over loss of pride, over inconvenience, and so much else.
We stand by as children starve by the millions because we lack the will to end hunger. But we have found the will to develop missiles capable of flying over the polar cap and landing within a few hundred feet of their target. This is not innovation. It is a profound distortion of humanity's purpose on earth.
Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.
Study how to do the most good and let the pay take care of itself.
I give dignity second place to expedience.
When you start putting a higher value on works of art than people, you’re forfeiting your humanity.
For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.
Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?
Ethics are more important than laws.
I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.
I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character.
We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.
In Islam, rules are important, like the Prophet said innal halaala bayyinun, wa innal haraama bayyinun ["what is halal is clear, what is haram is clear"]. The goal is not to diminish the importance of rules, but to have the right priorities.
The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.
To put labour and wages first and human ordomestic life second is to invert the order of God and of nature.
Man is naturally more desirous of a quiet and approving, than of a vigilant and tender conscience--more desirous of security than of safety.
Truth and right are above utility in all realms of thought and action.
A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
