About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

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.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

When we’re falling in love or out of it, that’s when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I’m very happy to do that.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

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

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

I’m a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

We must, I believe, start teaching our children the sanity of nonviolence much earlier.

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Effective action is always unjust.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

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

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Evil is whatever distracts.

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.

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?

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

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.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.