The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

Those who enjoy the emotion of hating are much like the groups who sate their thirst for blood by hunting and hounding to death helpless animals as an outlet for their emotions.

Scopes isn’t on trial; civilization is on trial.

There is no such crime as a crime of thought; there are only crimes of action.

Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.