Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

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

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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

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

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

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

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

You cannot mix sports with politics.

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

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than condemn the innocent.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

I have always fought for concrete facts, for justice.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

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.

No obligation to do the impossible is binding.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

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

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

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

We live in a bewildering world.

Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.