What is permissible is not always honorable.

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

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

As a former resident with strong personal and ministry ties to the North Star State, I pray that the good people of Minnesota will show their support for God’s definition of marriage, between a man and a woman.

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

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

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.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

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

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.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Scouting is nothing less than applied Christianity.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

Saints need sinners.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

I do not pilfer victory.

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

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

I think that when you’re making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

Morality is contraband in war.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

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

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

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

There is no hierarchy of values any more. Real progress is due mainly to human genius, and that’s rare, and usually stems from a real elite, from a hierarchy.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.