Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

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

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

The biggest difference in the wet between F2 and F1 is that there’s so much more power in F1 as being on the throttle earlier has a bigger advantage.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

We all have the duty to do good.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

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

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

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.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

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

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

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

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

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

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

Exceeds man’s might: that dwells with the gods above.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Force does not constitute right… obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

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