Quotes about "Social Justice & Equality"

Never - no, not for one moment - believe that any human being, with sense in his skull, will love or respect you on account of your fine or costly clothes. ”

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war. ”

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ”

I tend to admire dead people more than the living. All too often, human reality diminishes the glowing reputation. ”

Human beings are interested in the human condition. ”

What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. ”

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. ”

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. ”

You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue. ”

The law, which restrains a man from doing mischief to his fellow citizens, though it diminishes the natural, increases the civil liberty of mankind. ”