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.

We didn’t become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn’t come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn’t do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

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

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

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

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

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.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

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.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

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

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

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.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

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

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

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 remedy is worse than the disease.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

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.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

We moralize among ruins.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Socialists tend to want to pay people more money to do less work, and capitalists tend to want to provide better products at better prices.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

Capitalism has proven to be the only system that works, but the problem with capitalism is that extreme wealth ends up in the hands of a few people.

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

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

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

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.

We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

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.

Abortion is clearly wrong.