Alternatives Quote by Charles Hampden-Turner

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

When a man carries an instrument of violence, he'll always find the justification to use it.

— Brian K. Vaughan

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

— Max Lerner

Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels.

— Albert Einstein

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

— Nelson Mandela

The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys.

— C. S. Lewis

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

— Michael Shermer

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

“Just as we cannot stop the birds flying off and upwards at our approach, so there is no way of preventing the acts which…

— Philip Thody

Force cannot transmit a moral principle: moral ideas can be received only through the reason of the heart.

— Edwin Markham

“The modern mind is hard to please; and it generally calls the way of Godfrey ferocious and the way of Francis fanatical. That is,…

— G.K. Chesterton

“If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the…

— C.S. Lewis