Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Some may remember, if you have good memories, that there used to be a concept in Anglo-American law called a presumption of innocence, innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Now that’s so deep in history that there’s no point even bringing it up, but it did once exist.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Law, without force, is impotent.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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.

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

We are not at war against Islam.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Nicaragua dealt with the problem of terrorism in exactly the right way. It followed international law and treaty obligations. It collected evidence, brought the evidence to the highest existing tribunal, the International Court of Justice, and received a verdict – which, of course, the U.S. dismissed with contempt.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

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.

The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.