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“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

Thinking Littles Can Do Change Justice Knowledge Learning Failing Shapes Management Social Justice Deeds Range Our Thoughts Mindful Living

Author:R. D. Laing

“There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming”

People Ifs Littles Country Bigs Government Waiting Justice Perfect Poor Cities Eternal Heavenly Fairness Oppressed Eternal Happiness Justice For All

Author:David Berg

“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

“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

“In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose between the two masters, so little are we made to be independent.”

Men Littles Made Two Order Force Justice Masters Protect Independent Submit Compelled Obliged Two Masters

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“We cannot sanction the view that the Constitution, while solicitous of the cognitive content of individual speech, has little or no regard for that emotive function which, practically speaking, may often be the more important element of the overall message sought to be communicated.”

May Littles Important Individual Justice Views Speech Elements Messages Function Constitution Regard Sanctions Cognitive Often Is

Author:John Marshall Harlan II

“So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than gold e'er dusted;" proclaiming the merits of the bad wine, and making it, by every token, as enticing as we can; and blessing our stars that the good will be found out by its flavor "without our stir." As it is inestimable, we seek not to win esteem for it; as it is beyond all praise, we bestow no praises upon it.”

Giving Littles Found Winning Stars Justice Goes On Blessing Fairs Gold Praise Wine Esteem Dust Merit Flavor Good Will Tokens Proclaiming Enticing

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.”

Littles Wisdom Politics Justice Economy Taken Kingdoms Liberalism Robbery

Book:The City of God

Source: The City of God

“The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.”

Men Humans Littles Use Care Justice Race Greatness Take Care Practicals Human Race Great Men Interpreter Little Man

Book:The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics

Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics

“If my cup won't hold but a pint and yourn holds a quart, wouldn't ye be mean not to let me have my little half-measure full?”

Ifs Mean Littles Justice Half Let Me Cups Pints Half Measures

Book:The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Unabridged): Including her famous Speech Ain't I a Woman? (Inspiring Memoir of One Incredible Woman)

Source: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (Unabridged): Including her famous Speech Ain't I a Woman? (Inspiring Memoir of One Incredible Woman)

“The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.”

Mean Littles Long Ends Bigs Care Found Justice White Steps Morning Support Policy Emotional Charity Complexes Privilege Satisfaction Evening Novelists Awards Savior Afternoon Brutal Slam

Author:Teju Cole

“True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?”

Ifs Men Years Littles Law Justice Quality Taken Mankind Conscience Essence All Time Code Sensations Fragments

Author:Walter Van Tilburg Clark

“The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.”

Thinking Should Littles Moments Justice Talking Deserve Mercy Bells Alarms Not Talking

Author:R. C. Sproul

“For twelve successive Congresses we have appeared before committees of the two Houses making this plea, that the underlying principle of our Government, the right of consent, shall have practical application to the other half of people. Such a little simple thing we have been asking for a quarter of a century. For over forty years, longer than the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, we have been begging and praying and pleading for this act of justice. We shall some day be heeded.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

“If you wish particularly to gain the good graces and affection of certain people, men or women, try to discover their most striking merit, if they have one, and their dominant weakness, for every one has his own, then do justice to the one, and a little more than justice to the other.”

People Ifs Men Trying Littles Certain Wish Justice Grace Weakness Gains Affection Merit Dominant

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“God's world is a good place. The one thing not good in it is we. How little justice and humility there is in us. How little we understand true patriotism!”

World Littles Justice Humility Fine Patriotism

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.”

Littles Law Justice Authority Merchants Merchant Of Venice

Author:William Shakespeare

“Don't just get mad, try a little creative revenge ... Creative revenge ... allows you to get even - to extract some satisfactory justice - when you are wronged, but lets you do it with a sense of humor, not boiling malice.”

Trying Littles Justice Creative Anger Mad Revenge Sense Of Humor Malice Boiling Wronged

Author:Sonia Friedman

“The deadly weapon against totalitarian society is openness - doing everything very openly on the Internet, letting people know every detail, any little development. Once it is out there, everybody can make their own judgement. [Therefore] holding a trial outside the court. I think that is fairness, that is justice, that is a civil society. Otherwise call it an evil society because everything is hidden.”

People Thinking Knows Littles Evil Justice Development Internet Weapons Court Details Trials Judgement Openness Fairness Civil Society

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.”

Men May Littles Persons Doe Stills Force Justice He Man Sitting Reputation Merit Estates Doing Nothing Neighbour Propriety Sitting Still

Book:The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

Source: The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!”

“Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.”

Ifs Firsts Littles Persons Seems Asks Given Justice Moral Principles Negative Treats Absolutes Core Command Acknowledge Unconditional Imperatives Moral Principles Command Not

Author:Paul Tillich

“My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its not enough to be conservative, you still need to have the brainpower to be a Supreme Court justice. And, if Harriet Miers is confirmed, she likely won't be in the same league with her colleagues in terms of gray matter.”

“God, please help us remember that all the darkness in the world cannot snuff out the light of one little candle. Help us to keep lighting our little candles until a mighty torch of justice sweeps our nation and the world.”

World Littles Helping Light Remember Nations Justice Darkness Please Candle Lighting Torches Snuff

Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“Our president's latest energy initiative was to go to Saudi Arabia and beg King Abdullah to give us a little relief on gasoline prices. I guess there was some justice in that. When you, the president, after 9/11, tell the country to go shopping instead of buckling down to break our addiction to oil, it ends with you, the president, shopping the world for discount gasoline.”

World Giving Littles Ends Country Energy President Justice Break Kings Addiction Oil Relief Shopping Initiative Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis Gasoline Discounts Gasoline Prices King Abdullah

Author:Thomas Friedman

“Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!”

People Mean Littles Matter Use Desire Turns Justice Virtue Economic Materials Tools Difficulty Solve Pity Enlightened Taoism Goods Worldly Diligence Frugality Stinginess

Author:Zicheng Hong