I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

Every 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?

Confronted with the impossibility of remaining faithful to one’s beliefs, and the equal impossibility of becoming free of them, one can be driven to the most inhuman excesses.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

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

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

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.

I believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Effective action is always unjust.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

A mission statement is not something you write overnight… But fundamentally, your mission statement becomes your constitution, the solid expression of your vision and values. It becomes the criterion by which you measure everything else in your life.

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.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

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.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.