Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Yes, there is a terrible moral in ‚Dorian Gray‘ – a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

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.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

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.

In the divine milieu, all the elements of the universe touch each other by that which is most inward and ultimate in them. There they concentrate, little by little, all that is purest and most attractive in them without loss and without danger of subsequent corruption.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

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

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

Integrity has no need of rules.

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

Justice is truth in action.

The 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.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

I strongly believe that missionaries make better products. They care more. For a missionary, it’s not just about the business. There has to be a business, and the business has to make sense, but that’s not why you do it. You do it because you have something meaningful that motivates you.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.