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.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

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

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

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

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.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

The biggest crime in England is to rise above your station. It’s fine to be a pop star. ‚Oh, it’s great, lots of fun, aren’t they sweet, these pop stars! But to think you have anything to say about how the world should work? What arrogance!‘

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

I might talk about killing people, but that doesn’t mean I do it.

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

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

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

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Compassion is the basis of morality.

The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.

If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

You can’t have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Politics have no relation to morals.

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

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

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

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.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

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.

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.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

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