In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

More law, less justice.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

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

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

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

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

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.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen to resist the law because of religious reasons.

When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn’t for you. It’s for the Presidency.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

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.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

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

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

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.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Law is mind without reason.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.