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

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

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.‘

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

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

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

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.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

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.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

We’ve become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that’s been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I’ve ever seen in my life.

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.

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.

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

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

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

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

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 should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

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.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

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

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

Ethics and power are separate.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

We’re all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

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

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

A precedent embalms a principle.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.