When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

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

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

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

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.

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

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

We cannot have communion with Christ till we are in union with Him; and we cannot have communion with the Church till we are in vital union with it.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

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

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.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

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

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

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

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

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.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

War – An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

It’s amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won’t lift a finger to help at home!

A mother defends herself with a heart filled with love before doing so with words. I wonder whether there is any love for the church in the hearts of those who pay so much attention to the scandals.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.

A master performer like Bill Clinton never lost sight of the fact that as president he had to project confidence and power, but if he was speaking to a group of autoworkers he would adjust his accent and his words to fit the audience, and do the same for a group of executives.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

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