#just

But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. ↗

— Patti Smith

#patti-smith #robert-mapplethorpe #art

When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bitterness #correction #distinction #hatred #instigation

You must dare, and dare again, and then dare a little bit more, and go on daring. ↗

— Justin Cotillard

#boldness #cotillard #courage #dare #daring

My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate in my favour. ↗

— Auberon Waugh

#attitude

Everything that is necessary is also easy. You just have to accept it. And the most necessary, the most natural matter on this planet is death. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#also #death #easy #everything #just

When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: If you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t understand data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren’t optimistic, you haven’t got a pulse. What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#social-justice #beauty

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it. ↗

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

#enough #girdle #got #just #loosen

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes? ↗

— Umberto Eco

#homer #iliad #justification #mythology #passage-of-time

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically. ↗

— Dave Barry

#appear #assume #complicated #guys #just

Being a copper I like to see the law win. I'd like to see the flashy well-dressed mugs like Eddie Mars spoiling their manicures in the rock quarry at Folsom, alongside of the poor little slum-bred guys that got knocked over on their first caper amd never had a break since. That's what I'd like. You and me both lived too long to think I'm likely to see it happen. Not in this town, not in any town half this size, in any part of this wide, green and beautiful U.S.A. We just don't run our country that way. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#corruption #crime #injustice #justice #money