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

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

I do not pilfer victory.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

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

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

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

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

If you would judge, understand.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

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?

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?

I’ll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.

Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

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

To live outside the law, you must be honest.