Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

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.

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.

The level of destruction and terror and violence carried out by the powerful states far exceeds anything that can imaginably can be done by groups that are called terrorists and subnational groups.

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

It’s not at all good when your cancer is ‚palpable‘ from the outside. Especially when, as at this stage, they didn’t even know where the primary source was. Carcinoma works cunningly from the inside out. Detection and treatment often work more slowly and gropingly, from the outside in.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Some men do think I’m a psycho bunny-boiler.

Justice is truth in action.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

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

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

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

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.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what’s happening in Africa, and if we’re honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Purposes, plans, and achievements of men may all disappear like yon cloud upon the mountain’s summit; but, like the mountain itself, the things which are of God shall stand fast for ever and ever.