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

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

The reward of suffering is experience.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

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.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

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.

Smooth functioning of social life has always depended on the recognition of certain basic limits to behavior. We cannot simply say or do anything we wish, or offend people, without paying consequences – isolation, ostracism, etc.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy, but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince’s part to pardon.

Racism is real in this country.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

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

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

So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Every action has a consequence. It may be good for strengthening. And I have no doubt that lifting a lot of weights can get you stronger. I just don’t know if lifting stronger weights can keep you healthy, or it can keep you doing your job better, especially for a pro athlete.

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

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

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.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children’s children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

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

Short cuts make long delays.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

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.

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

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

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

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

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

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.