Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Justice is truth in action.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

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.

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.‘

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

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

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

Morality is contraband in war.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Saints need sinners.

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

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

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

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

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

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

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

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.

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.

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

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

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

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

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.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.