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

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

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

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother. I won’t do a movie or a video that would bring disrespect to my mother.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

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

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

The bells will ring and the marriages will begin. And it’s a great day in our state for equal protection under the law for all people.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren’t easy questions.

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

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.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information – the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.

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

Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.

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

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you’re well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they’re used to seeing me walking around, so I don’t think I’m a very big deal.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

I don’t know the law, the kind of law of quantity and quality, but I think the opportunity of people being able to express themselves and to have the means of production is a great thing. It’s also changing how we’re telling stories.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

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

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Well, I have great respect for Senator Hirono.

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

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

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.