Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma GandhiNo public man can be just a little crooked.
Herbert HooverJustice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
PlatoWhere is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
Khalil GibranIt is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.
Mark TwainThe X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.
Elon MuskDon’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.
Jordan PetersonTo say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
Pope FrancisPeople love conspiracy theories.
Neil ArmstrongIf what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Thomas CarlyleVirtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.
PlatoSteve Jobs‘ ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things.
Bill GatesMen never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise PascalThe safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
VoltaireThe superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.
ConfuciusI do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
Albert EinsteinEthics and power are separate.
Robert GreeneIf we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis BaconWhat is permissible is not always honorable.
Marcus Tullius CiceroDoing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWe fly to 106 kilometers. We’ve always had as our mission that we always wanted to fly above the Karman line because we didn’t want there to be any asterisks next to your name about whether you’re an astronaut or not.
Jeff BezosDeliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice WalkerYou say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.
Friedrich NietzschePreparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.
Russell M. NelsonThe world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.
VoltaireThe first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.
Albert SchweitzerThere is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Oscar WildeMy measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.
Robert KiyosakiWhen I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.
Jimmy CarterI just know what is right and I want to do what is right.
Greta ThunbergA good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. MenckenCollegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘
Ruth Bader GinsburgCowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.
Martin Luther King, Jr.It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Jean-Paul SartreMoral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
AristotleI purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.
Joel OsteenWhen there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Herbert HooverThe greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.
Mother TeresaIf people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
Albert EinsteinAct that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel KantThere are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Thomas SowellI don’t believe in conspiracy theories. I’m just a cold-blooded investigator.
Kevin GatesFor the mission’s sake, for our country’s sake, and the sake of the men who carried the Division’s colors in past battles – carry out your mission and keep your honor clean.
Jim MattisMany religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
Russell M. NelsonThe fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard ShawEvery man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?
Jean-Jacques RousseauConscience is a man’s compass.
Vincent Van GoghHe who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.
PlatoEvil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
Jean-Paul SartreOne of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Christopher HitchensMay be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaViolence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
Albert CamusTo do a great right do a little wrong.
William ShakespeareTrouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.
Robert KiyosakiThe superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.
ConfuciusI’ve done a number of Super Bowl ads. And that is the best advertising of the year. That is when people realize they’re going to be compared directly against other ads.
Jerry SeinfeldThe only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel KantThe quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
Aldous HuxleySin, 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.
Pope FrancisEthics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.
Bertrand Russell