Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.

For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.

The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.

Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results. The best we can do is lean toward the light, toward the harmonious relationships that come from compassion with suffering, from understanding the other person.

Once it is acceptable to kill unborn children, no one who is weak or vulnerable can be safe. Is a handicapped person fully human? Is his life meaningful? How about the elderly? If those who cannot think do not deserve to live, what about those who think the wrong way?

The possibility of evil exists from the moment that a creature is made that can love and do good because it chooses and not because it is unable to do anything else. The actuality of evil exists from the moment that that choice is exercised in the wrong direction.

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.

Moral relativism has a reputation for being compassionate, caring and humane, but it is an extremely useful philosophy for tyrants.