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.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

The 21st century is going to be the American century. Because we lead not only by the example of our power, but by the power of our example. That is the history of the journey of America.

Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

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

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

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.

Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

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

If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

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

Every President wants to do right.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

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.