I think the first duty of society is justice.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Babylon is everywhere. You have wrong and you have right. Wrong is what we call Babylon, wrong things. That is what Babylon is to me. I could have born in England, I could have born in America, it make no difference where me born, because there is Babylon everywhere.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

In a higher phase of communist society… only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

Society therefore is as ancient as the world.

In today’s world, having money has allowed people who are extremely uncool to think that they’re cool and carry it like that. People who really are cool and people who really are artists and have ideas have to literally turn in their cool card to society just to make it past the age of 28.

I think America has always been polarized.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

The American people have not become heartless.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists – to protect them and to promote their common welfare – all else is lost.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

In Japan, the writers have made up a literary community, a circle, a society. I think 90 percent of Japan’s writers live in Tokyo. Naturally, they make a community. There are groups and customs, and so they are tied up in a way.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.