We all have the duty to do good.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

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

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

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

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

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

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ’s name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

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

He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

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.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

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

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

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.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

It is right to give every man his due.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

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

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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

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

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.