Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

When I was five – it’s not even bad – I stole a sweet from the sweet shop.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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.

Justice is truth in action.

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.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.