It is right to give every man his due.

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

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.

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

To be is to do.

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

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

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

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that’s something that we should think about.

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.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

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.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

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

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

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.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

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

I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Sikhs. I’m not in favour of dividing Hindus and Christians. All the citizens, all the voters, are my countrymen.

Me only have one ambition, y’know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to see mankind live together – black, white, Chinese, everyone – that’s all.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

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

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

We have two evils to fight, capitalism and racism. We must destroy both racism and capitalism.

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

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.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

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

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

You gotta understand: I believe a woman should praise the man, the king. If you holding it down for your woman, I feel like the woman should praise. And the man should praise the queen.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

‚Whole Women’s Health‘ made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

I want a president who will teach our children that everyone in this country matters, a president who truly believes in the vision that our Founders put forth all those years ago that we are all created equal, each a beloved part of the great American story.