George Amos Dorsey Quotes

Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

George Amos Dorsey

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• Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Courage

• 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

• 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
  • Time
  • Responsibility
  • Justice

• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Early

• One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Liberty

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

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Ethics

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

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Important
  • Political
  • Justice

• I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Community
  • Social
  • Group

• I don't do social media.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Media
  • Social
  • Social Media

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• Whoever fights, whoever falls, Justice conquers evermore.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Justice

• I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism - a human being is exercising extremism - in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Believe
  • Justice

• Thus our duties to animals are indirectly duties to humanity.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Humanity

• Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

  

  Albert Pike
  • Great
  • Justice

• 'In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.'

  

  Albert Camus
  • Time
  • Live
  • Earth

• There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Family
  • Simple
  • Humanity

• There can be racism in a system even if a particular episode of injustice is not a manifestation of that racism. Every single thing in the criminal justice system is not a manifestation of racism, but many things are.

  

  James Forman, Jr.
  • Single
  • Justice
  • Racism

• Wealth is a thing, earned with honesty and justice. Its opposite is the Mammon of unrighteousness.

  

  Dayananda Saraswati
  • Justice
  • Honesty

• As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

  

  Plutarch
  • Humanity
  • Gods
  • Regard

• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Fool

• The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Laugh
  • Emotions

• ...sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you (even if they show it in peculiar ways).

  

  Cara Lockwood
  • Want
  • You
  • Care

• Man is a free moral agent and can be magnanimous and deal disinterestedly, humanity is a definite goal, social justice is desirable and possible, individual lives may be gloriously diversified, uniquely individualized, and yet socially useful; or, these are mere phrases, snares to catch gulls, soothing syrup for our troubled souls.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Justice
  • Humanity
  • Individual