Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Responsible moral behavior is the first and best line of defense against AIDS, and is the only message we should send young people worldwide.

Taking a call girl to an STD fair... there's a joke here.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

We need to teach responsibility not legislate morality, because the vows of abstinence break far more easily than latex condoms.

To treat others ethically is to act out of concern for their happiness and suffering.

Life is moral responsibility.

It is always the right time to do the right thing.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

And the sooner you do the right thing, the better. You get it over with, and you don’t have to worry about it anymore. But who does that in real life?

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

Is is always time to do the right thing.

I think what's important for kids to know is that your decisions here on earth matter, your behavior matters and how you treat other people matters.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.

My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.

If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!

One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

The truth is that people who pull triggers are ultimately responsible, whether they're following orders or not. An army of people making individual moral choices may be inefficient, but an army of people ignoring their morality is horrifying.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.

We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Most thoughtful people would agree that morality in the absence of policing is somehow more truly moral than the kind of false morality that vanishes as soon as the police go on strike or the spy camera is switched off, whether the spy camera is a real one monitored in the police station or an imaginary one in heaven.

T is the will that makes the action good or ill.