“The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.” MenHumansHeartTwoHumanityBeliefJusticeRootsShockHuman HeartExtinction Author:Katherine Anne Porter
“Eliphas never abandoned his belief that the fate of man is the result of justice, that we do not know all our shortcomings for which we are punished, nor the way how we incur the punishment through them.” KnowsMenWayBeliefJusticeResultsFatePunishmentAbandonedShortcomings Author:Maimonides
“It is a revolution; a revolution of the most intense character; in which belief in the justice, prudence, and wisdom of secession is blended with the keenest sense of wrong and outrage, and it can no more be checked by human effort for the time than a prairie fire by a gardener's watering pot.” HumansCharacterBeliefJusticeEffortFireRevolutionIntensePotPrudenceGardenerOutragePrairieSecession Author:Judah P. Benjamin
“Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.” MayBeliefJusticeGroupsInternetCircumstancesPrivacyAssociationFree SpeechIndispensableDissidents Author:John Marshall Harlan II
“[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.” WorldHumansMomentsBeliefJusticeCommonExistenceBirthBalanceTriumphJournalistFuneralContrastDisgraceGreat IdeaHuman ExistenceSoothingIdealistAnnouncementsObituary Author:Anna Quindlen
“One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution.” IdeasIndividualBeliefNationsJusticeRaceClassProgressGenerationsAtheismSolutionsResponsibleHistoricalFinalsPositive AtheismFuture GenerationSlaughterEmancipationGreat Historical Author:Isaiah Berlin
“The Chief Justice's ... main point seemed to be that the references to God in the Pledge of Allegiance aren't really religious and therefore are not that important - something I would think would offend Christians who think it should stay because it is religious and does matter. Too many Christians appear to be desperate to shore up their failing confidence in their own religious beliefs by having the government officially endorse those beliefs.” ThinkingShouldDoeImportantMatterGovernmentChristianBeliefReligiousJusticeFailingAtheismPositive AtheismChiefsDesperateShorePledgeAllegianceReligious BeliefPledge Of AllegianceChief Justice Author:Ed Buckner
“The fantastic political and economic burdens imposed by that treaty have entirely disillusioned the German people and annihilated its belief in justice.” PeoplePoliticalBeliefJusticeEconomicBurdenFantasticTreatiesDisillusioned Author:Adolf Hitler
“All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.” FormBeliefJusticeLibertyHigherIdealsBeing TrueToo Good To Be True Book:My Pillow Book Source: My Pillow Book
“we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.” BeliefWealthJusticeUnited StatesBalanceHistoricalScalesAmerican Justice Author:Angela Davis
“Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people to the truth. They pass along information and ideas that many others do not know, and they cause them to ask questions, to challenge their own long-held beliefs. ... Movements are the way ordinary people get more freedom and justice. Movements are how we keep a check on power and those who abuse it.” PeopleKnowsWayLongIdeasAsksBeliefCausesChallengesJusticeKnowingInformationMovementDependsOrdinaryAbuseActivismChecksLoudEducateSocial ChangeOrdinary PeopleKnowing The Truth Author:Unita Blackwell
“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.” DifferentMomentsAmericaRememberBeliefNationsJusticeMinesStrangeColorCitizensFellowsDenyThat MomentBetray Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.” IfsThinkingWorldNeedsBelieveDoneRunningBeliefDifficultJusticeOur LivesThis WorldAbandon Author:Alexander McCall Smith
“If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.” IfsWorldFirstsSelfCountryWisdomRealityReligionAsksBeliefCommunityLeadershipDifferencesReligiousJusticeClassPracticeGenerationsHuman NatureDemandEqualEthicsIslamHuman RightsAbsurdIdeologyShockingInabilityEqual RightsArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisReligious Belief Author:Reza Aslan
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy.” SelfBeliefJusticeHonestyDivineProductsMoralityHypocrisyRighteousnessFidelitySelf RighteousnessDivine PowerTheist Author:Emma Goldman
“The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.” MayGovernmentIndividualBeliefReligiousJusticeViewsDoorsGroupsExerciseAuthorityRegulationAffirmationReligious BeliefClausesGovernment RegulationAbhorrent Author:William J. Brennan
“Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.” IfsIdeasBeliefEnergyDifferencesJusticeResultsOpinionMovementExpressionBirthOffersEnthusiasmSpeakersIncitement Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
“[Ginsburg's] feminism was very sweeping and very ambitious and very consistent. Justice O'Connor had a more case-by-case, pragmatic approach to her feminism. They were not entirely the same, [but] I think that they shared the most important thing, which is the belief that they were worthy and that therefore other women were worthy.” ThinkingImportantBeliefJusticeCasesFeminismApproachImportant ThingsWorthyConsistentAmbitiousPragmaticSweeping Author:Linda Hirshman
“One of my defining beliefs is that Jesus Christ has taken all of my guilt before God, and that he has been raised from the dead. That gives incredible hope and meaning to every day of my life - that nothing done in this world is wasted when it's done for him and his glory, and that there will be a day of justice and reward for the entire world.” WorldGivingHas BeensDoneJesusBeliefChristJusticeTakenThis WorldGloryJesus ChristGuiltRaisedRewardsIncrediblesDefining Author:Joshua Harris
“To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in decency and justice and progress and the value of individual liberty because of the rights conferred on each of us by our Creator that willcarry us through.... There must be something in the heart as well as the head.” WorldWellsHeartSpiritualValuesIndividualBeliefJusticeLibertyRightsProgressStrongerCreatorPeacefulDecencyProsperousIndividual Liberty Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“It is the evil in man that makes democracy necessary, and man's belief in justice that makes democracy possible.” MenEvilBeliefJusticeDemocracy Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.” BeliefForceWishJusticeSharePolicyThreatConquerCreeds Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations
“Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.” HumansSoulRealityHumanityBeliefJusticeProduceOrdinarySouthDeedsGloriousSouth AfricaNobilityHuman SoulGlorious Life Author:Nelson Mandela
“One has to be realistic. Ones concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. Thats very important.” WorldImportantBeliefJusticeConcernAliensTerritoryRealisticEquity Author:Amartya Sen