It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Law is always better than war.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

We all have done something unethical.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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?

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.

If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

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

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone’s mouth was ‚Mister,‘ a sign of respect.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

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.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

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

I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.