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

Many novice real estate investors soon quit the profession and invest in a well-diversified portfolio of bonds. That’s because, when you invest in real estate, you often see a side of humanity that stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and saving money shelter you from.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

The proper study of Mankind is Man.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

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

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things – such as traditional marriage – that, I think, express a community’s concern and regard for a particular institution.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

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

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.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

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

If you want someone to say, ‚She’s so sweet, and she’s so cute, and, honey, point your foot,‘ that’s not my school. You can go to the YMCA and have a nobody teach your kid if that’s what you want to hear.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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

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.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you’re crazy.

I’m quite a chauvinistic person.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

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

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.