Barack Obama Quotes

We know that peace is only possible when it is the fruit of justice. True peace is a profound transformation by means of the force of nonviolence that is the power of love.

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

What we want is a moral revolution, not one that people associate with street riots and the disorganization of life. A transformation of attitudes that will introduce normal, moral order in the functioning of the state. An order whereby honesty is a positive value, and dishonesty a negative one.

There are two sides to reconciliation; the law aspect and the moral values. Unless there is improvement for both, changes will not come by easily

Passion is more important than justice.

Only he who has measured the dominion of force, and knows how not to respect it, is capable of love andjustice.

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

In Europe men and women have intercourse because they love each other. In the South Seas they love each other because they have had intercourse. Who is right?

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

If I have to choose between peace and righteousness, I'll choose righteousness.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

We talk so much about one's rights... so little about what is actually right.

The most important thing about the gentleman was that he was an idealist. ... He was bred up to a code of self-restraint which taught resistance to pragmatic temptation. He was definitely a man of sentiment, who refused to put matters on a basis of materialism and self-aggrandizement.

There is no power without justice.

When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.