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

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

Integrity has no need of rules.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

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.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

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.

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls… saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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.

Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Some like to think that a keen appreciation of art can actually make us better people – more just, more moral, more sensitive, more understanding. Perhaps that is true – in certain rare, isolated cases.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

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

For I can raise no money by vile means.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

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

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

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

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

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

Microsoft is not about greed. It’s about innovation and fairness.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?

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

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

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.