The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

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

There is poison in the fang of the serpent, in the mouth of the fly and in the sting of a scorpion; but the wicked man is saturated with it.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

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

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

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.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

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

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

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

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.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

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.

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.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

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.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win.

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

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

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

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

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

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

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

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

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

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

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

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.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.