The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property will be safe.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul; and your very flesh shall be a great poem, and have the richest fluency, not only in its words, but in the silent lines of its lips and face, and between the lashes of your eyes, and in every motion and joint of your body.

Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Protecting your virtue you have to learn to say no.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.