Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

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

The safety of the people shall be the highest law.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

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.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

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

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

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.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

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

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

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

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

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

I love being in a courtroom.

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

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

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.

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

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

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.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

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

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

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

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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