Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

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

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

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.

Abortion isn’t a lesser evil, it’s a crime. Taking one life to save another, that’s what the Mafia does. It’s a crime. It’s an absolute evil.

Sadly, of course, there is real evil in the world. You watch the news, and you see all of the people suffering and so much cruelty.

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

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

We all have done something unethical.

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

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

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

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

States are not moral agents.

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

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

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

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

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

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

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

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

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

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

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

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

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

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

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

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