Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today. ”

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture. ”

It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has itself put into them; it may be a far harder thing to extract laws over which it has no control. ”

I go to the Natural History Museum and look at the cage of stuffed starlings there. But my favourite thing is the big blue whale. The scale of it is unbelievable, and makes you feel how insignificant you are as a human being. ”

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. ”

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins. ”

We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. ”

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation. ”

Being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I had expected. By all rights, I should have finished my time here in mid-March 2006 - at least, that's when Medicare stopped paying. ”

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. ”