One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

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

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

I do not pilfer victory.

To be is to do.

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

I feel like if you’re a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

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.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

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.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

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

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

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

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Effective action is always unjust.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

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

Listen with your eyes for feelings.

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

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

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.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius‘ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

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