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

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.

What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

Politics have no relation to morals.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

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

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Well, Marx is having a comeback. I hear him mentioned a lot in terms of the global financial situation and the general sense of injustice out there. A lot of economic experts in America refer to him without actually using the M word, but he’s around.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

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

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

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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.‘

An index is a great leveller.

The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

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

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Abortion is clearly wrong.

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.