The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

States are not moral agents.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

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

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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

Live truth instead of professing it.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

People often think I’m a faker, but I’m usually honest, in a certain way – in such a way that often nobody believes me!

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

‚Obama and Biden want to raise taxes by a trillion dollars.‘ Guess what? Yes, we do in one regard: We want to let that trillion dollar tax cut expire so the middle class doesn’t have to bear the burden of all that money going to the super-wealthy. That’s not a tax raise. That’s called fairness where I come from.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

I don’t use Twitter for bad.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Justice is truth in action.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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

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

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.