Ali Fazal Quotes

There is no shame in black athletes not wanting to be role models, but there should be shame when they don't behave like one. It's a free country and people can do whatever they want. But just because we can doesn't mean we should.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

… keeper of the national conscience

Law is, for the most part, positive or mandatory. It prescribes certain duties which I am to do as the condition of my civic protection. Conscience is, for the most part, negative or prohibitory in its operation. It sets before me certain evils to be undone or repented of. Thus law aims to exalt its subject, or make him conventionally righteous; while conscience aims to humiliate him

I can't tell you how important it is for people on the public stage to utilize that stage in a constructive, positive way. When you're in the public eye, you have a decision to make - whether you are going to be an influence or not.

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

National morality, by example and by persuasion, should begin at the White House and have the good influence to reach out to every corner of the land

When moral principles, rather than persons, are candidates for power, to vote is to perform a moral duty, and not to vote is to neglect a duty

Public business … must always be done by somebody…. If wise men decline it, others will not; if honest men refuse it, others will not.

We must have a clean role model at the top. Clearly this has not been the case.

Since the state is a community of human beings it is as truly subject to the moral law as any private society.

If the official is himself upright, the people will play their roles without orders. If he is not upright, even under orders the people will be disobedient.

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

The fact that television is raising our moral conscience is a good thing.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

My perspective is that, when you're a kid, if your audience is a group of children or teenagers, you do have some level of social responsibility. I feel that.

We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.

The more the audience and the society trusts an actor, the more the responsibility increases for the actor.

We are ambassadors. We are leaders of our own brands, and then in life things are thrown at you, you have to stand up for what's right. That brings on a whole new role. It's not on the front of the agenda that you see, but if you read the fine print it's part of becoming an athlete and the pedestal you get with that.

For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up. Just to protect yourself as an individual is very political. You don't have to march on Tiananmen, but you do have to be clear-minded, to find your own means of expression.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.