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

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.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

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.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

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

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

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

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

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

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

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

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one.

We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

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

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

No matter what message you are about to deliver somewhere, whether it is holding out a hand of friendship, or making clear that you disapprove of something, is the fact that the person sitting across the table is a human being, so the goal is to always establish common ground.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

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.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

More law, less justice.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

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

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

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

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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

If you ever see The Rock working out in the gym, don’t think you can just go up and disturb his workout and expect him to take a picture. He’s there to work, so kindly just pass the silverback on by or he’ll rip your face off.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

If you’re talking to a man who wouldn’t fight with you under any circumstances whatsoever, then you’re talking to someone for whom you have absolutely no respect.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

My mother would kill me if I posed nude! My mother raised me with certain standards.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

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