I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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

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

To me, we’re marketing hope.

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

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.

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

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.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

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

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

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

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

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.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.

I’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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?

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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

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

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

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.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

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.

Steve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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.

To be is to do.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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.

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.