There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others—it only changes yours.

My anger is more likely to do me more harm than your wrong.

If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.

As I walked out the door to my freedom I knew that, if I did not leave all the anger, hatred and resentment behind, I would remain a prisoner.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

Wherever there is injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”