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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In the general course of human nature, a power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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A mountain is the best medicine for a troubled mind. Seldom does man ponder his own insignificance. He thinks he is master of all things. He thinks the world is his without bonds. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Only when he tramps the mountains alone, communing with nature, observing other insignificant creatures about him, to come and go as he will, does he awaken to his own short-lived presence on earth.
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The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.
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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.
