Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

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.

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

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many great directors. Different styles, as well, like Gus Van Sant. He just does the casting and the milieu and let’s you do your thing, quietly. Bertolucci, who can talk to you about your internal world in quite a creative way or just say, ‚Well, put your hand over here.‘

Integrity has no need of rules.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

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

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

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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.

I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.

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.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

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

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

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

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

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

Undoubtedly, the U.S. harbors leading international terrorists, people described by the F.B.I. and the Justice Department as leading terrorists, like Orlando Bosch, now Posada Carriles, not to speak of those who actually implement state terrorism.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

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.

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

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

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

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

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

To be is to do.

Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.

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

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.