Ethics and Morality

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the wickedest of men will do the wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.

Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practise it.

Advertising is legalized lying.

It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself.

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State... These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

He who seeks equality amongst unequals seeks the absurd .

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.