It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

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

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Free speech is not just another value. It’s the foundation of Western civilization.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

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

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I’m a cash flow guy. If it doesn’t make me money today, forget about it.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there’s a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

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

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

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.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

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.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

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

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

We moralize among ruins.

We learned about honesty and integrity – that the truth matters… that you don’t take shortcuts or play by your own set of rules… and success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

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

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn’t have to write for my living.

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

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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