All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

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.‘

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Fear is the mother of morality.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

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

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

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

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

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.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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

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

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

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

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.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.