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

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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

We all have the duty to do good.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

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.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

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

All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy.

You will kill 10 of our men, and we will kill 1 of yours, and in the end it will be you who tire of it.

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

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

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

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

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

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Those who ‚abjure‘ violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.

I sometimes just don’t like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

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

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

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

Even today we raise our hand against our brother… We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death.

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

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Racism and injustice and violence sweep our world, bringing a tragic harvest of heartache and death.

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

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

States are not moral agents.

All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn’t drink, they didn’t smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.

You can’t build a plot out of jokes. You need tragic relief. And you need to let people know that when a lot of frightened people are running around with edged weaponry, there are deaths. Stupid deaths, usually. I’m not writing ‚The A-Team‘ – if there’s a fight going on, people will get hurt. Not letting this happen would be a betrayal.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

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

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

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

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

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.