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

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

Integrity has no need of rules.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

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.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

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

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

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.

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.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

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

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

In my opinion, baseball is as big a business as anything there is. It has to be a business, the way it is conducted.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

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

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

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

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.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

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

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.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

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

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

The movie business is a big gamble.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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

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

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

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.