Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

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

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds; and I very rarely change it.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

He’s a wonderful talker, who has the art of telling you nothing in a great harangue.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than others their opinions more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.

Beware of allowing a tactless word, a rebuttal, a rejection to obliterate the whole sky.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

True success, true wealth, does not come out of the barrel of a gun.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

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.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

Understanding a question is half an answer.

Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

We doctors know a hopeless case if—listen: there's a hell of a good universe next door.

Religion is a great force—the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

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

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

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

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. All that is not a true change will disappear in the future society.

A society that tolerates intimidation as a means of settling disputes…loses its moral rights to exist as a social system, and its collapse does not take long to follow.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The simplest truths often meet the sternest resistance and are slowest in getting general acceptance.

Racism must be opposed by all means that humanity has at its disposal.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.