In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

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

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

That little Miley Cyrus… she’s like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she’s Hannah Montana, but what people don’t realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she’s 40 years old!

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

She’s a total professional, a diva, a mega-star, not just in music but in the entertainment industry. You always learn from the greats, and J.Lo is one.

We all have done something unethical.

Even before Snapchat, you go back into my career from Day One or interview people that knew me for 25 years, they’re going to tell you I’ve been DJ Khaled my whole life.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

Now I realize that from ’72 through to about ’76, I was the ultimate rock star. I couldn’t have been more rock star.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I made that first record in 2008, alongside the EP, but my label at the time waited three years to release it. They thought maybe someone bigger would buy it, but they didn’t, so in the end they just released it themselves.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Being shoved into the top-40 scene was an unusual experience. It was great I’d become accessible to a huge audience but not terribly fulfilling.

It is right to give every man his due.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Of course, animals have to be killed for food or to prevent their doing injury to others or to property. But such killing is too often carried out without regard to the pain inflicted.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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

No public man can be just a little crooked.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

Mr. Mijanovi and those associated with him are the hope and the conscience of the Yugoslav revolution.

I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.

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

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Over the years I’ve met quite a few big rappers. Then it exploded with 50 Cent, and I did a book with him. It’s always a strange meeting of two worlds, it’s very exciting.

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

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

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.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.