“Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.”

“Faith is a very clever concept. We invented God from our imagination and we use faith to justify His absence from reality.”

“Maxim 30: A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the further you'll go.-The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries”

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.”

“We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.”

“We can no more justify using nonhumans as human resources than we can justify human slavery. Animal use and slavery have at least one important point in common: both institutions treat sentient beings exclusively as resources of others. That cannot be justified with respect to humans; it cannot be justified with respect to nonhumans—however “humanely” we treat them.”