What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I think that the only ultimate guide we have is our conscience, and if the law of the land goes against our conscience I think we should disobey the law.

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.

The politicians, who once stated that war was too complex to be left to the generals, now act as though peace were too complex to be left to themselves.

I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.