Learn Through Quotations

“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.”

“The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.”

“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.”

“God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!”

“Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.”

“With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.”

“Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.”

“Laws are silent in time of war.”

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”

“Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.”

“An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.”

“Men are equal, it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.”

“Only a peace between equals can last.”

“We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.”

“Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.”

“Political power is merely the organized power of one class to oppress another.”

“Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that.”

“The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.”