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

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

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

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

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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

Of two evils, choose neither.

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.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

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.

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

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

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

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

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

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

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.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

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

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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

We all have the duty to do good.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.