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

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

Effective action is always unjust.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life – that is to say, over 35 – there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

More law, less justice.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

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

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

It’s not at all good when your cancer is ‚palpable‘ from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn’t even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

It is right to give every man his due.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Due process should matter.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Freedom is not enough.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.