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

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

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.

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.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

Thrift is of great revenue.

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

Cannot people realize how large an income is thrift?

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

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

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

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 a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

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.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

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

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

Morality is contraband in war.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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

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

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

Money is like an arm or leg – use it or lose it.

A man in debt is so far a slave.

We moralize among ruins.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

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

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

The object of the superior man is truth.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

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

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

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

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

First grade is very cheap. It’s the later grades where you have to spend a lot of money if you don’t do it right.

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

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

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

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.