Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

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

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

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

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I’m the proof – you can’t throw away tradition.

All great peoples are conservative.

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

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

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

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

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

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.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

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

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

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

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

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

States should have the right to enact laws… particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

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

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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

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

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

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

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

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.

Fear is the mother of morality.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

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

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