Ludwig Borne Quotes

Do not allow your hatred for others to make you swerve to wrongdoing and turn you away from justice.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

My future is righteousness.

I am not dead inside. I still care about right and wrong.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

You cannot institute any equality between right and wrong.

An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.

What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Honesty and integrity is an important part of our character, my character.

A nation cannot be truly great without a moral compass.

There are not 'many sides' in the fight against hatred and bigotry. There is only right and wrong.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

In justice is all virtues found in sum.

I think we have to give religion its due. I think we have to respect those for whom religion is important, but equally respect those who can achieve good morality without religion.

The four absolutes we all have in our minds: love, justice, evil, and forgiveness.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

I'm no saint but I do believe in what is right.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.