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.

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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.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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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.

  

  Gail Carriger
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• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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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.

  

  Paracelsus
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• Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
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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?

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• Even a single Justice can have a profound impact on the country.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
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• Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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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.

  

  Larry Wilmore
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• Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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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.

  

  Malcolm X
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• Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or twice causing a beneficial mutation to occur. Biologists have not detected any such interventions despite the data and theory they have assembled about mutation. However, I think it is a mistake to expect biological experiments to be able to detect such one-off acts of divine intervention, especially if those acts occurred in the distant past. Science isn't in that line of work.

  

  Elliott Sober
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• Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as 'glittering generalities,' have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell

• What is important, however, is that each day individuals are acquiring ever more consciousness of the need for their incorporation into society and, at the same time, of their importance as the motor of that society.

  

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• Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Christianity
  • Emblem
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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.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Justice
  • Equality