Tawni O'Dell Quotes

We do not just blindly concede control to authorities; instead we follow the cues provided by our moral communities on how best to behave.

Why does everyone think that he can be decent enough without the policeman, but that the club is needed for "the others?

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.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

My entire life had been this long, pressured conversation about the family I represented. 'When you walk out the door, you represent us. You have to dress well and make sure your hair is combed.'

Me, I'd prefer to have a good reputation rather than getting press for being scandalous, getting drunk in public, staying out late and so on.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.

Character is one of most precious parts of you. You can't get involved in things that will damage your character.

I'm not a bad guy. People who know me know who I am.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

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

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

It is the duty of a citizen not only to observe the law but to let it be known that he is opposed to its violation.

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.

We ought never to do wrong when anyone is looking.

… keeper of the national conscience

A competent knowledge of the laws of that society in which we live, is the proper accomplishment of every gentleman and scholar

You owe it to the community not to be swerved by eloquence and specious argument.

I think there's a social responsibility that comes with a public platform. Because of the position that I've been put in, I think it's important to use my voice to do as much as I can.

We Americans are a primitive people... Americans seem to have little respect for the law or the rights of others.