The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

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

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

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

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

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

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

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

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

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.

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

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

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.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

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

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

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

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

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

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.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.