There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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

Morality arose largely as an empirical defence of the individual and society. Ever since intelligent beings began to be in contact, and consequently in friction, they have felt the need to guard themselves against each other’s encroachments.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

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

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 first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

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

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.

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?

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

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

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

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

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Honor is the reward of virtue.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

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

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

I am a just man.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

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

The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called ‚new morality‘ is all right. They say we’re living in a new generation; let’s be relevant, let’s change God’s law. Let’s say that adultery is all right under certain circumstances; fornication’s all right under certain circumstances. If it’s ‚meaningful.‘

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 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.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

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