The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the light of every passing ship.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.

Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I think you would have a problem definitely.

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Dependability integrity the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong that you would never cheat anyone that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all inclusive thing. If a man has character everyone has confidence in him.

Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics.

Peace is our goal but preparedness is the price we must pay.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.

We cannot appeal to the conscience of the world when our own conscience is asleep.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.

One who breaks an unjust 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 law.

When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs.

Claiming for ourselves liberty of conscience, liberty to worship, we shall see to it that every other individual enjoys the same right.

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape.

It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

One lives with so many bad deeds on one's conscience and some good intentions in one's heart.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.

No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference.

God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.

To admit there is no god is to provide free license to pillage and rape with clear conscience.

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

The U.N. acts as the world's conscience, and over eighty-five percent of the work that is done by the United Nations is in the social, economic, educational and cultural fields.