Moral values and a culture and a religion maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

Teach a child what is wise that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful that is religion!

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion as organized in its Churches has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

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

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

I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and because of what the law was they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.

I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.

So after the Lewinsky scandal everything changed and we moved from using the Bible to address the moral issues of our time which were social to moral issues of our time that were very personal. I have continued that relationship up until the present.

There is no man more dangerous in a position of power than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity for if man's power is increased the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against his will is to prevent harm to others. His own good either physical or moral is not sufficient warrant.

All too often arrogance accompanies strength and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied by moral choice.

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.

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Because power corrupts society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.