Best justice & aim Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.”

Should Writing Sometimes Age Justice Taste Perfection Aim Refuse Suits Posterity

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim.”

Way Humans Reason Eye Humanity Justice Effort Divine Aim Providence Shallow Cheerful Resignation Inscrutable Acquiescence Human Power Divine Will

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799: prepared under the direction of the United States George Washington bicentennial commission and published by authority of Congress

“I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.”

Men Said Justice Views Judging Fit Equal Aim Innocent Guilty Consideration Permit Motto Jury Benches My Motto Innocent Man Grand Jury

Author:Isaac Parker

“I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.”

Source: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.”

Ifs Reason Whole Together Justice Doubt Effects Aim Dislike Rhyme Vulgar Immoral Vengeance Pagan Crude

Book:Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

Source: Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910

“To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.”

Mean Ends Government Social Goal Justice Technology Democracy Achieve Stronger Aim Social Justice Means To An End

Author:Beth Simone Noveck

“Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.”

“All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.”

Knows Wells Persons Social Justice Existence Aim Social Justice Balanced Principal

Book:Banking and Currency and the Money Trust

Source: Banking and Currency and the Money Trust

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