I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with telling the truth. I know it isn’t fashionable.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

Existential depression has always annoyed me; it is one of the world's most pointless forms of suffering.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.

Morality is the foundation of sadhana. Morality is the base, intuition is the way and Life Divine is the goal

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

To learn that it's easier to be told by others what to think and believe than it is to think for yourself.

There is no enemy that respect and love will not conquer. The moral authority for survival comes from respect.

If children instead of adults would have contolled the world, then the world would have become a better place.