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.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

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

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Treat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.

We moralize among ruins.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

I’ve never doubted that apartheid – because it was of itself fundamentally, intrinsically evil – was going to bite the dust eventually.

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

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?