The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary – public authority, just cause, right motive.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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

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

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

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

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

I hate violence, yes I do. It’s kind of a dilemma, huh?.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

An individual’s refusal to carry out the criminal acts of his government sets the stage, in the most effective way possible, for the attempt to demonstrate the criminal nature of these acts.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

Sin is geographical.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

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

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.

When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

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.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

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

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

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

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

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Life is warfare.

It is right to give every man his due.