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

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

I was probably the first footballer ever to have a pop-star profile, and my agent was right when he said we could put my name on stair rods and sell them to people in bungalows.

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

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.

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

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

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

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?

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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

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

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I’ve been lucky – all the ads I’ve got, I’ve got to be myself. I haven’t had to act too much or tried too hard to be someone I’m not. I think that’s why people sort of like them. Even the Fastrack ads I did with Genelia.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

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.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

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

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

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

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

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

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.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

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

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

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

When it comes down to my brand, We the Best, we’re about the people and whoever is passionate and in love the way I’m in love when it comes down to the headphones I’m promoting.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

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

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

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

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.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.