Conduct Regulation Quotes

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity.

It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

Reason and emotion counsel and supplement each other. Whoever heeds only the one, and puts aside the other, recklessly deprives himself of a portion of the aid granted us for the regulation of our conduct.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

We cannot constantly supervise everyone in football ...you cannot ask everyone to behave ethically.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief