Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for! —Antonio Porchia More about this quote Tags: power naming blindness holiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our own list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us. —Mark Twain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. . . . And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion. —Robert Langdon in Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. —Thomas Jefferson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. —Jon Stewart More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. —Henri J.M. Nouwen More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is no true justice unless mercy is part of it. —The Zohar More about this quote Tags: justice mercy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The czarina Maria Fëdorovna was known throughout Russia for her philanthropy. She once saved a prisoner from transportation to Siberia by transposing a single comma in a warrant signed by Alexander. The czar had written: "Pardon impossible, to be sent to Siberia." After Maria's intervention, the note read: "Pardon, impossible to be sent to Siberia." The prisoner was subsequently released. —The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty, all are responsible. —Abraham Joshua Heschel More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I see the "Ten Most Wanted" lists . . . I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now. —Eddie Cantor More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime. —Emma Goldman More about this quote Tags: law crime corruption Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray. —Shannon L. Alder More about this quote Tags: others bad pleasure good noticing fault Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice. —Millicent Fenwick More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
[Lawyer to potential client:] You have a pretty good case, Mr. Pitkin. How much justice can you afford? —From a New Yorker cartoon by J.B. Handelsman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Crimes were committed to punish crimes, and crimes were committed to prevent crimes. The world has been filled with prisons and dungeons, with chains and whips, with crosses and gibbets, with thumbscrews and racks, with hangmen —Robert Ingersoll More about this quote Tags: prison crime punishment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email