top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people."
Author Name
Personal Development
"God befriend us as our cause is just!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"What is equity? It is the quality of citizens of a given society to relate to each other in fairness and impartiality."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice."
Author Name
Personal Development
"They questioned us but they were polite because we had passports and money. I do not think they believed a word of the story and I thought it was silly but it was like a law-court. You did not want something reasonable, you wanted something technical and then stuck to it without explanations."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?"
Author Name
Personal Development
"If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Take from a man his freedom or his goods and you may have taken his innocence, almost his humanity, as well."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The only thing you can justifiably claim that life owes you is an equal measure of what you have given out. And even that is debatable."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses."
Peace
"All authority belongs to the people."
Politics
"Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it."
Wisdom
"So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done."
Leadership
"Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it."
Wisdom
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
Friendship
"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."
Freedom
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
Positive
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Freedom
"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality [in Europe] producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property,...[One] means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."
Society
bottom of page