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

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

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.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

I don’t pick up toys. I crush them.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

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

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

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

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

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.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Study men, not historians.

The worst men often give the best advice.

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

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Men were not intended to work with the accuracy of tools, to be precise and perfect in all their actions.

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

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

And if you’re horrible to me I’m going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That’s how I operate.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

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.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

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.