I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

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?

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

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.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I always loved advertising. If I hadn’t been in fashion, I’d have been in advertising.

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?

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

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

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

How come anything you buy will go on sale next week?

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

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You’ve got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by – Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

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

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

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.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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.

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

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

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.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

I’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.

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

A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that’s achieved by, if you like, advertising.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.