After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don’t want victories anymore.

Any time we are misused or used for a purpose other than what God intended us for, it’s damaging.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

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.‘

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

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.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress ‚suspects.‘

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

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

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

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.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

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.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

Even though the risks of death are higher driving than flying, many people would rather drive simply because they feel they have more control driving. The facts are that only a few hundred people die a year flying, and 44,000 are killed a year driving.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

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

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn’t even know you’d done.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

What I invest in, while not risky for me, may be too risky for most people.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

I am a just man.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Freedom is not enough.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

A precedent embalms a principle.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Effective action is always unjust.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.