#justice

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world. ↗

— Scot McKnight

#discipleship #hope #inspirational #justice #religion

Medieval justice was a quaint thing. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#medieval #quaint #thing

Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded. ↗

— David E. Price

#also #arrogance #basic #country #disagree

Justice in the extreme is often unjust. ↗

— Jean Racine

#justice #often #unjust

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual. ↗

— Abdoulaye Wade

#individual #justice #product #related #seems

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#acting #aesthetic #artist #consider #craft

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#concurred #could #court #decision #four

A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#both #cannot #certain #country #either

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#blunt #justice #our #points #subtle

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#becomes #before #divine #finite #god