The good of the people is the greatest law.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

People from North India are generally known to be aggressive and emotional.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

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.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

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

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

The very word ‚secrecy‘ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

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

People like to talk about war.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

It’s rare for anyone to value the opinions of a teenage girl.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Law is always better than war.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

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

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.