"If someone comes to kill you, get in first and kill him!" ~~ Talmud, Berakhot
"To help a fellow man may be to tip the scales (of God’s reckoning) for the entire world." ~~ Adapted from Talmud, Kiddushin 40:2
"Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. " ~~ Woody Allen
"By three things is the world sustained: justice, truth and peace." ~~ Avot 1:17
"Charity outweighs all other commandments. " ~~ Talmud, Bava Batra
"But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream!" ~~ Amos 5:24
"Whoso confesses and forsakes his evil ways shall find mercy. " ~~ Proverbs (Mishle) 28:13
"Once a man repents, stop reminding him of what he did!" ~~ Talmud, Bava Metzia
"Give every man the benefit of the doubt." ~~ Sayings of the Fathers, 1:7
"The blind cannot be a judge of color or the deaf of a song." ~~ Azariah De Rossi
"Let your words be simple, that they need no interpreting; and let their meaning be understood, that they need no proof." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"Rebuke will be of no avail to the stiff-necked." ~~ Keli Yakar