If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

No one can say, ‚I have dropped out – I am no longer in the system.‘ When you’re in prison, you’re even closer to the system: you feel it more, and you might be in there for whatever reason. You don’t transform the system as an absolute thing.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

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

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government – that is despotism.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

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.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

If you’re too free, you’re like the way Hong Kong is now. It’s very chaotic.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Everybody is entertained to death.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

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

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.