What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Love is only one of many passions.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

Songwriting is my way of channeling my feelings and my thoughts. Not just mine, but the things I see, the people I care about. My head would explode if I didn’t get some of that stuff out.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

I have no human feelings.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

I kind of love Cole Miller.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Nothing can affect my voice, it’s so bad.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.