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

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

I’m not for gay marriage, but I’m not for discriminating against people.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

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

Man’s true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature; as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

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

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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

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

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.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

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

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

If there is no God, everything is permitted.

Racism is real in this country.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

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.

I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think and feel.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

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

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

I think we must get rid of slavery, or we must get rid of freedom.

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.

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

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

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside.

Today we are engaged in a deadly global struggle for those who would intimidate, torture, and murder people for exercising the most basic freedoms. If we are to win this struggle and spread those freedoms, we must keep our own moral compass pointed in a true direction.

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

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

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

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.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It’s when you go backwards through the ‚begats‘ and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, ‚Hang on, that’s a big punishment for eating one lousy apple… There’s a human-rights issue.‘

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.