Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

It’s an honor for me to represent urban music, reggaeton, trap and hip-hop.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Evil is whatever distracts.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

We all have the duty to do good.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

We all have done something unethical.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

SEALs are human beings. We may all have the same haircuts, but we aren’t robots. Some SEALs are great people. Some are not great people. Some have done unspeakably terrible things. You’re dealing with different people, different dreams, different desires.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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

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

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.