To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

High-quality early-childhood programs and health coverage have expanded, and the number of mentoring relationships for at-risk youth has risen dramatically. That progress is encouraging, but it’s not evenly distributed.

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‚race‘ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

Songs don’t have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I’ve done is about alienation… about where you fit in society.

I serve God.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

America is just downright mean.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn’t a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn’t be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn’t realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

To believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

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.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

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

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia – that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

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

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.