Benjamin B. Ferencz Quotes
There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.

Quotes to Explore
-
The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
-
You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
-
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
-
Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
-
I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
-
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.
-
A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
-
Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
-
It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
-
Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
-
I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
-
But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
-
I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
-
In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.
-
I think there's a very clear recognition and understanding that the progress of women in business at the very highest decision-making levels is too slow. This is a discussion that's going on in every country around the world, actually.
-
You have the power to remind us all that human dignity is not just a universal aspiration, but a human right.
-
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith.
-
It was disappointing, as if a wish she didn’t know she’d made hadn’t come true.
-
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
-
There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.
-
I raised my arms as if in prayer and heard the mutter of response behind me. Then I scattered the dried grains, red and brown and black, and studied the patterns they formed on the stone ledge before Sibbos. This is not such a mystic thing. You see what it is sensible to see, or else you interpret what you see so that the meaning comes out as you want it.
-
There was a time when I was in the South, singing, and someone came to me before the show and said, 'There's been a threat on your life. Someone had phoned in and said they were going to shoot you if you go on stage.' I was singing 'Chances Are,' and I kept moving so they wouldn't have a shot at me.
-
Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.
-
There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.