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

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

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

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

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I do not pilfer victory.

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

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

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.

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

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

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

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

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

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

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

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.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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

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.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

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

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

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

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.