I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

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

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Of two evils, choose neither.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

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

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

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

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Justice is truth in action.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

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

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Morality is contraband in war.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

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.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

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

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

We all have done something unethical.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Effective action is always unjust.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.