Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

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 goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will, who am I to judge? We shouldn’t marginalise people for this. They must be integrated into society.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn’t matter which color does the hating. It’s just plain wrong.

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.

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.

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

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

In my country of South Africa, we struggled for years against the evil system of apartheid that divided human beings, children of the same God, by racial classification and then denied many of them fundamental human rights.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn’t a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

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.

Sometimes I’m a bit under-aggressive and sometimes a bit over. But I think it’s good to have both.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

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

Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.

I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

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.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

Everything isn’t political.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

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.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.