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

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

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

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.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn’t or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.

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

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

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.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

To be is to do.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

We all have done something unethical.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

I worked in ad sales. I would call up local businesses and try to get them to buy ads in the paper. The whole time, I felt like I was just scamming people.

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

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

I am a just man.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

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.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

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

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

To cut short the question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent, and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?

Next to doing the right thing, the most important thing is to let people know you are doing the right thing.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.