Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

I don’t think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

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

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

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

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

There will be no whitewash in the White House.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

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 like criticism. It makes you strong.

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

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

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.

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

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

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.

In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I’m against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.

Morality is contraband in war.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

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

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

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.

I went to an extreme for literary purposes because I felt all the self-help books out there were so gooey and Pollyanna-ish and nauseating. It was making me angry.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

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

Every utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?

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

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

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

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

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

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.