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

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

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

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

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.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

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.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

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

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

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

We live in ugly times.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Popular art is the dream of society; it does not examine itself.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

I don’t know why women want any of the things men have when one of the things that women have is men.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it – not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

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.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

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

Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.