Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

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

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If every choice you make comes from an honest place, you’re solid, and nothing anybody can say about you can rock you or change your opinion.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

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

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

Reparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

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

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

We’re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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.

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

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

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.

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

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

This way of life is worth defending.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.

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