It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

‚Discworld‘ is taking something that you know is ridiculous and treating it as if it is serious, to see if something interesting happens when you do so.

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.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

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.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

A new philosophy generally means in practice the praise of some old vice.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Man takes his law from the Earth; the Earth takes its law from Heaven; Heaven takes its law from the Tao. The law of the Tao is its being what it is.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

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.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

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.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

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.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

Since God created the world, He also created reality.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

Don’t create more enemies than you take out by some immoral act.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

For the world to be interesting, you have to be manipulating it all the time.

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

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.