He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Ethics and power are separate.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

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

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

I want kids to know: Don’t wait for somebody to come along and tell you you’re special. Because that may never happen.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I don’t try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

When 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.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

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

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

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

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.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.