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

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story.

To me, being the best means proving it in different countries and championships.

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.

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

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

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

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.

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

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

The thing that’s been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is – I think then, and I think now – that if we didn’t do this, someone else would have done it.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I think the positive competition between states in India is one of the most positive dynamics that the country has.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

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

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

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

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world’s best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL.

It’s life isn’t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

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.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

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.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

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

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

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

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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

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.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Without sounding biased, 70 days of football is not enough. Even if Messi plays 70 days he cannot be in the national team. You need to play around the year to be in contention for the national team.

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.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

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.