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You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

It has always seemed strange to me… the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime!

Intelligence is a moral category.