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

To all the musicians, to the Academy, with all due respect, reggaeton is part of our Latin culture. And its representing as much as any other genre at the worldwide level.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

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.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

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.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all.

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.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

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.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

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

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

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

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Today, we’re still loaded down – and, to some extent, embarrassed – by ancient myths, but we respect them as part of the same impulse that has led to the modern, scientific kind of myth. But we now have the opportunity to discover, for the first time, the way the universe is in fact constructed as opposed to how we would wish it to be constructed.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

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?

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

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.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

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.‘

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

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

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

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

Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good… Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place.

I’ve never been a manipulator, even in my bachelor days. I never wanted to do things to people that could catch up with me later on.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.