Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
— Albert Einstein
Education
Perhaps the main motive behind my isolation was my desire to escape from the demands of relationships, which I consider very difficult in comparison to making rockets. All I desired was to be true to my way of life, to uphold the science of rocketry in my country and to retire with a clean conscience.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Work
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Politics
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Religion
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me — to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
— Abigail Adams
Social Justice
How difficult the task to quench the fire and the pride of private ambition, and to sacrifice ourselves and all our hopes and expectations to the public weal! How few have souls capable of so noble an undertaking! How often are the laurels worn by those who have had no share in earning them! But there is a future recompense of reward, to which the upright man looks, and which he will most assuredly obtain, provided he perseveres unto the end.
If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
To be good, and to do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.