In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

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 test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Nineteen sixty-eight was one exciting moment in a much larger movement. It spawned a whole range of movements. There wouldn’t have been an international global solidarity movement, for instance, without the events of 1968. It was enormous, in terms of human rights, ethnic rights, a concern for the environment, too.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that’s it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called ‚The Truth‘.

Science is but an image of the truth.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

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

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we’re in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we’ve got to do something about the unemployed.

Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

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

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

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.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Guantanamo is still open, but it’s unlikely that serious torture is going on at Guantanamo. There is just too much inspection.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

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

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

I’m skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

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

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.