African Spir Quotes

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

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• These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Day
  • Justice

• We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer - our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Justice
  • Peaceful

• Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Authority

• Without justice you won't have stability.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • You
  • Justice
  • Stability

• I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Great
  • Want
  • Death

• At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Death
  • Food

• I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a bit different throughout the country, so I look forward to Judge Gorsuch being on the court, Justice Gorsuch being on the court, and bringing some clarification to those issues.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Different
  • Country
  • Death

• As an Egyptian, I was always frustrated, just like many young Egyptians, of the situation in the country. And to a large extent, we didn't know what could we do. And looking at Khaled's photo after his death; basically I just felt that we are all Khaled Said.

  

  Wael Ghonim
  • Country
  • Death
  • Know

• My mother's belief in spiritual healers grew stronger after our family went through a rough patch following my father's death. Sufi saint Karimullah Shah Kadri changed our lives, and all of us converted to Sufism. But it wasn't an instantaneous decision - it took us 10 years to convert. The change in religion was like washing away the past.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Father

• When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Community
  • Justice
  • Empty

• Justice is merely incidental to law and order.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Law
  • Justice
  • Order

• God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • God
  • Real
  • Death

• If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Work
  • Why
  • Father

• I do believe that there will be a clash between East and West. I believe that there will be a clash between those who want freedom, justice and equality for everyone and those who want to continue the systems of exploitation. I believe that there will be that kind of clash, but I don't think that it will be based upon the color of the skin….

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Freedom
  • Justice

• A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Soul
  • Future
  • Death

• All your thoughts are in another head. Your dreams are sleepin' in a different bed. The force that moves you is a circular breath of life and death going round and round and round.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Life
  • Different
  • Death

• In every unbeliever's heart there is an uneasy feeling that, after all, he may awake after death and find himself immortal. This is his punishment for his unbelief. This is the agnostic's Hell.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Heart
  • May
  • Death

• There is a saying 'justice delayed is justice denied'. Everyone knows of it, you do too. I have done three major things in Gujarat. I have increased court hours by 30 minutes every day; reduced court vacations by seven days; started evening courts with the same infrastructure.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Done
  • Justice

• Then rose up the horror which would make civilized man shun justice like a plague if he had not the needy to serve him as hangmen for wages.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Up
  • Justice
  • Rose

• The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

  

  Wilfred Bion
  • Death
  • Desperate
  • Dissolute

• The sophist, in contradistinction to the philosopher, is not set in motion and kept in motion by the sting of the awareness of the fundamental difference between conviction or belief and genuine insight.

  

  Leo Strauss

• The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

  

  African Spir
  • Death
  • Justice
  • Civilisation