Plato Quotes
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
Quotes to Explore
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
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Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
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Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
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By nature, men desire the beautiful.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
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Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
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We will see about Obama's legacy. I still think the historical nature of his candidacy will be the biggest part of his legacy.
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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
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As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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What's so wonderful about 'The Walking Dead' is that we're able to explore human nature in its most depraved as well as its most humanitarian in each episode.
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Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.
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The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any limits to its capabilities.
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It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxicab or fry a pan of fish.
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I've never fallen in love right off the bat. I get scared to say I love you too soon because it means so much. It means you're not seeing an end to things.
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Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
