And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

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

I can be a cruel person.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

I looked the people of Louisiana in the eye and told them exactly what I thought in terms that normal people use.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

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

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

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

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

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

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

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.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

‚Some Kind Of Monster‘ is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you’re watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That’s where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It’s having backbone.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

On the subject of literary genres, I’ve always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I’d love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

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

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

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.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

It’s not easy to define poetry.

Younger scientists are extremely sensitive to the moral implications of all they do.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.