You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward t….

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so..

You, your families, your friends and your countries are to be exterminated by the common decision of a few brutal but powerful men. To please these m….

Ants and savages put strangers to death..

In spreading his ideas, Plato was willing to employ emotional appeals, state propaganda, and the use of force..

The human heart as modern civilization has made it is more prone to hatred than to friendship. And it is prone to hatred because it is dissatisfied..

From that awful encounter of the soul with the outer world, enunciation, wisdom, and charity are born; and with their birth a new life begins. To tak….

The criminal law has, from the point of view of thwarted virtue, the merit of allowing an outlet for those impulses of aggression which cowardice, di….

The frequency with which a man experiences lust depends upon his own physical condition, whereas the occasion which rouse such feelings in him depend….

[Industrialism's soon diminishing] capacity to supply human needs could be prevented if men exercised any restraint or foresight in their present fre….

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians..

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies..

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom..

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom..

If a law were passed giving six months to every writer of a first book, only the good ones would do it..

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness..

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation..

One of the most powerful of all our passions is the desire to be admired and respected..

Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of ver….

When a man tells you that he knows the exact truth about anything you are safe in inferring that he is an inexact man..

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself..