The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

Turn your heart toward what is good by cultivating forgiveness and compassion and mindful presence.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man.

Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.

Don't flang him off the bluff, boys. Tain't christian. Let's go then. Hump up there, stranger, and let's go get hung.

Did I kill a lot of people? I been asked that question a few times. But never before by a man. I told this one girl I was seeing that yes I had killed a bunch of gooks but that I hadnt eaten any of them.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

The new rule shall rule as the soul rules, and as the love and justice and equality that are in the soul rule.

The greater the reform needed, the greater the personality you need to accomplish it.

This is what you should do: Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, Argue not concerning God, Have patience and indulgence toward the people... Reexamine all you have been told in school or church or in any book, Dismiss what insults your very soul, And your flesh shall become a great poem.