I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

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

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

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

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Freedom is not enough.

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.

The dropping of bombs on people – isn’t that terrorism?

The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

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

Honor is the reward of virtue.

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

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

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

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

The principle of self defense, even involving weapons and bloodshed, has never been condemned, even by Gandhi.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

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

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

All through Latin America, there’s sharp condemnation of the criminal atrocities of Sept. 11. But it’s qualified by the observation that although these are horrible atrocities, they are not unfamiliar.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

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.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

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 do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

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

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!