There is nothing as dangerous as an economist who only knows economics except the moral philosopher who knows no economics.

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

That's why the firm foundation of every land must be morality untarnished which, if destroyed, Rome will fall and founder.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Dream big dreams! Imagine that you have no limitations and then decide what's right before you decide what's possible.

The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

You don't sit around looking for reasons to do the right thing; it's the bad decisions that require creative reasoning.

The point of protesting about 'moral equivalence' is surely not to blur moral choices on ‘our side’. Is it?