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

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

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

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Music belongs to the people. To no one else. To no one else.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

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

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

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.

I do not pilfer victory.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

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.

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

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

The buck stops here!

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

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

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Be the chief but never the lord.

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.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.