I think the first duty of society is justice.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

The greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

It is pretty ironic that the so-called ‚least advanced‘ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

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.

People love conspiracy theories.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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 would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.

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.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.