The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

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

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

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.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Freedom is not enough.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

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

I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Regardless of what society says, we can’t go on much longer in the sea of immorality without judgment coming.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

We moralize among ruins.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

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

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

‚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.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

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

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

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

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

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

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

The crimes against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and elsewhere, particularly Lebanon, are so shocking that the only emotionally valid reaction is rage and a call for extreme actions. But that does not help the victims. And, in fact, it’s likely to harm them.

Justice is truth in action.