Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

I don’t compare myself to anyone else; I don’t make comments about anyone else because they do what feels right for them, and that’s okay by me.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

We are second-hand people. We have lived on what we have been told, either guided by our inclinations, our tendencies, or compelled to accept by circumstances and environment. We are the result of all kinds of influences, and there is nothing new in us, nothing that we have discovered for ourselves: nothing original, pristine, clear.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

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?

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one’s opponent.

I am just one human being.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I’ll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I’m gonna tell ya, that’s one helluva man, and God bless him.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

I dressed more like a pop star, I suppose, rather than the traditional blazer and tall trousers other players went for.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

Respect the burden.

In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

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.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

It is only a man’s own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else’s meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

In some respects, South African apartheid was more vicious than Israeli practices, and in some respects the opposite is true.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.