“As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become schooled in thinking of these abstractions as applied to others in matrices-like mental rotations.” ThinkingJusticeLibertyRightsGenerationsEnlightenmentConceptsMethodPhilosopherAbstractScholarAbstractionAdoptedSchooledLiberty And JusticeRotation Author:Michael Shermer
“The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.” JusticeSubjectsBalanceCriticismPraiseMethodCriticsDiscriminationCensure Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.” ImportantGoalJusticeMethodTransparency Author:Julian Assange
“With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice.” KnowsWorldWisdomEvilPoliticsSocialJusticeClassPracticeEconomyTheoryGrewConcernMethodSocial JusticeInjusticeCommunismAssumptionLiberalismProtestHardshipUnderprivilegedLexiconFalse AssumptionsNew ClassClassless Society Book:A Martin Luther King Treasury Source: A Martin Luther King Treasury
“The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.” HumansArtSoulLife IsPassionJusticeRaceIndustryIntellectualUniversalInfiniteMethodWorkersIntuitionQueensHuman RaceOrganizedFeminineDedicatedHumankindBeesPassiveInsectsMasculineSexuallyFertileBroodingIntellectual Life Book:Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana Source: Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana
“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.” MenMeanEndsReasonOrderPassionCoursesEvilReligiousJusticeAnimalEducationVirtueWiseAchieveFashionDutyModelsAimMethodInstitutionsTrainIllAll TimeEndeavorJudgedFormidableAmenable Author:George Berkeley
“Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.” PeopleDiesChangeJusticeViewsConditionsCivilizationDiversityMethodSocial JusticePoint Of ViewIncapableAdapting Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“In principle as a philosophy, a model of organising society, Communism has to be respected. As regards the use of certain methods to advance social justice and greater regulation by the state, there are certain methods that are useful. What we need is a new society, a new civilization and convergence of all that is best in both [Communism and Capitalism]” NeedsStatesPhilosophyUseCertainSocialJusticePrinciplesGreaterCommunicationCivilizationModelsCapitalismRegardMethodSocial JusticeCommunismRegulationConvergence Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“Men of all social stations live together: they are equal in their desires, yet vary in their methods; they are equal in their passions, yet different in their intelligence; that is their nature-given vitality.” MenDifferentTogetherDesirePassionGivenSocialJusticeEqualDiversityMethodSocial JusticeStationsVitalityVary Author:Xunzi