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If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919America and the World War (1915)
- War & Peace
Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
Aristotle384–322 BC
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
- Good & Evil
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
Socrates470–399 BCII: xxxi. Original Greek: ἓν μόνον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι, τὴν ἐπιστήμην, καὶ ἓν μόνον κακόν, τὴν ἀμαθίαν
- Good & Evil
- Knowledge
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle384–322 BCNichomachean Ethics (ca. 325 BC) Book II.
Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865The Cooper Union Address (1860)
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Fear
- Good & Evil
On life’s journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
Surely what a man does when he is caught off his guard is the best evidence as to what sort of man he is.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Mere Christianity
- Virtue
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321
Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and can’t really get rid of it.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Case for Christianity
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.
Mark Twain1835–1910To the Young People’s Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn (16 February 1901)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
?UnattributedOften credited to Alexander Hamilton
When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Woody Allenborn 1935
- Comedy
The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965