I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

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

Abortion is clearly wrong.

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

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

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

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

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

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

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

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?

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

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.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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.

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

I do not pilfer victory.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

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

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

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

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

The path to the CEO’s office should not be through the CFO’s office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

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.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

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

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.