I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

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

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

Let’s be honest – tracking down, rounding up, and deporting millions of people isn’t realistic. Anyone who suggests otherwise isn’t being straight with you. It’s also not who we are as Americans.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

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

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

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

Let me define a leader. He must have vision and passion and not be afraid of any problem. Instead, he should know how to defeat it. Most importantly, he must work with integrity.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There’s no tricks. It’s honesty with big melodies.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

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.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world: the ‚Wall Street Journal.‘

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

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

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

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

I have never left another senator out to dry. Never.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

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

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

The moment there is suspicion about a person’s motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.

One thing you gotta know about me is I have absolutely no filter. I have no problem saying what the hell I think of someone.

If I made a commitment, I stood by that commitment – and try to make it real. Because when you become leaders, the most important thing you have is your word, your trust. That’s where respect comes from.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?