Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

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

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

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

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

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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

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?

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

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

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

Justice is truth in action.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

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.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

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

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

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

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

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

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.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

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

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.