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- Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and responsibility of our existence.
- Elihu Burritt
- Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- Men keep agreements when it is to the advantage of neither to break them.
- Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
- I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.
- Saint Augustine (354 AD - 430 AD)
- To all, to each, a fair good night,
And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- O! many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark the archer little meant;
And many a word, at random spoken,
May soothe or wound a heart that's broken! - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- When the judgement's weak,
The prejudice is strong. - Kane O'Hara
- He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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