The great thieves punish the little ones. —Thomas Fuller More about this quote Tags: justice morality stealing thievery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you're condemned to death they have to give you one last meal of your choice. What is that all about? A group of people plans to kill you, so they want you to eat something you like? Do they think the food part will take your mind off the dying part? Or do they prefer to kill you when you're just coming off a peak experience and full of positive energy? —George Carlin More about this quote Tags: mind death food energy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. —Richard Wright More about this quote Tags: justice reality hearts prison human nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. "No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first — verdict afterwards. —Lewis Carroll More about this quote Tags: justice Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free. —Pearl S. Buck More about this quote Tags: power hope freedom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The wheels of justice . . . they're square wheels. —Barbara Corcoran More about this quote Tags: justice progress Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished equation. —Mary McCarthy More about this quote Tags: justice society Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: potential growth possibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My conviction is that I have suffered for things that I am guilty of. I am suffering because I am a radical, and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian; I have suffered more for my family and for my beloved than for myself; but I am so convinced to be right that if you would execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already. —Bartolomeo Vanzetti More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He who limps is still walking. —Stanislaw J. Lec More about this quote Tags: progress effort walking earnestness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fall seven times. Stand up eight. —Japanese proverb More about this quote Tags: effort resilience Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. —Mahatma Gandhi More about this quote Tags: spirituality fear cowardice morality fearlessness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block. —Annie Dillard More about this quote Tags: success vision aim Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time a tremendous whack. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. —Friedrich Nietzsche More about this quote Tags: goals stubbornness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email