Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

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

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

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

Force always attracts men of low morality.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

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

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

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

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.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

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.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

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

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

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

Evil is whatever distracts.

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