Best greater & justice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a house in S. Springfield and some wild lands in Iowa. Notwithstanding my great and good husband's life was sacrificed for his country, we are left to struggle in a manner...of life undeserved. Roving Generals have elegant mansions showered upon them, and the American people leave the family of the Martyred President to struggle as best they may! Strange justice this.”

People May Mean Country House Left President Justice Struggle Greater Land Strange Husband Portions Resentment Elegant Mansions Iowa Good Husband Martyred Roving

Author:Mary Todd Lincoln

“The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.”

Humans Light Age Justice Dark Human Beings Liberty Moral Christianity Greater Society Civilization Equal Tests Universal Slave Goddess Toys Savages Sentimental Dark Ages

Author:George William Curtis

“Politically or ideologically oriented evaluations of Chief Justice Rehnquist should not overlook what a successful and popular chief justice he was within the Court as the justices' presiding officer, .. The contrast between Rehnquist's undeniably happy Court and that of his predecessor, Warren E. Burger, could not have been greater.”

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Author:David Garrow

“The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.”

Justice Greater Theory Injustice Tolerance Permit Persecution Tolerable

Book:A Theory of Justice

Source: A Theory of Justice

“Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort to government at all) it must be so extensive as that local egoisms may never reach its greater part; that on every particular question, a majority may be found in its councils free from particular interests, and giving, therefore, an uniform prevalence to the principles of justice.”

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Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798

Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798

“Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.”

Grows Justice Greater Grace

Author:Edmund Spenser

“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.”

Men Way Littles Long I Can Home Running Opportunity Justice Chance Greater He Man Great Things Now And Then Hammers Here And There Home Run Greater Things

Book:I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

Source: I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

“Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.”

Source: Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

“The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.”

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Author:John Ruskin

“The Lord Chief Justice of England recently said that the greater part of his judicial time was spent investigating collisions between propelled vehicles, each on its own side of the road, each sounding its horn and each stationary.”

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Author:Philip Guedalla

“Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)

“The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.”

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Author:Nick Clegg

“Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?”

Ifs Men Justice Virtue Issues Greater Influence Be Good Neglect Stakes

Book:Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic

Source: Six Great Dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Symposium, The Republic

“The greater the importance to safeguarding the community from incitements to the overthrow of our institutions by force and violence, the more imperative is the need to preserve the constitutional rights of free speech, free press and free assembly in order to maintain the opportunity for free political discussion.”

“There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.”

Justice Greater Judging

Book:Jack London Complete Collection Northern Tales (annotated)

Source: Jack London Complete Collection Northern Tales (annotated)

“Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“People can overcome their differences, and when united, move toward a world of greater fairness and justice. As in folk music, each person has a unique role to play.”

People World Persons Play Moving Differences Justice United Roles Greater Unique Overcoming Folks Fairness Folk Music

Author:Peter Yarrow

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