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There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#justice #law #name #perpetrated #shield

Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#inspirational #faith

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#injustice #injustice

The only way I can pay back for what fate and society have handed me is to try, in minor totally useless ways, to make an angry sound against injustice. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#injustice #society #injustice

The polite thing would be to go back inside, give you privacy when you read it. But, I’m just not that mature.' 'It’s nothing. Fine.' Feeling foolish, Laurel opened the envelope. You might think this is over, but you’d be wrong. I’ve taken your shoes hostage. Contact me within forty-eight hours, or the Pradas get it. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#laurel #savor-the-moment #shoenapping #maturity

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#close-mindedness #hypothesis #open-mindedness #maturity

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#character #maturity #scars #maturity

Yet You Stay You weren’t meant for the ice. You weren’t made for the pain. The world that lives inside of me brought only shame.  You were meant for castles and living in the sun. The cold running through me should have made you run. Yet you stay holding onto me Yet you stay reaching out a hand that I pushed away Yet you stay when I know it’s not right for you Yet you stay Yet you stay I can’t feel the warmth. I need to feel the ice. I want to hold it all in until I can’t feel the knife. So I push you away and I scream out your name I know I can’t need you yet you give in anyway Yet you stay holding onto me Yet you stay reaching out a hand that I pushed away Yet you stay when I know it’s not right for you Yet you stay Yet you stay I can’t feel the warmth. I need to feel the ice. I want to hold it all in until I can’t feel the knife. So I push you away and I scream out your name And I know I can’t need you yet you give in anyway (x2)  Yet you stay holding onto me Yet you stay reaching out a hand that I pushed away Yet you stay when I know it’s not right for you Yet you stay Yet you stay Oh the dark will always be my cloak and you are the threat to unveil my pain. So leave leave and erase my memories I need to face the life that was meant for me.  Don’t stay and ruin all my plans You can’t have my soul oh I’m not a man The empty vessel I dwell in is not meant to feel the heat you being  So I push you away and I push you away Yet you stay Ooooooh Yet you stay  Yet you stay Yet you stay ↗

— Abbi Glines

#life

You're so easy to read but the book is boring me. ↗

— Emilie Autumn

#opheliac #truth #autumn

Lily appeared, wearing her nightclothes, in the doorway. She gave an impatient sigh. 'This is certainly a very LONG private conversation,' she said. 'And there are certain people waiting for their comfort object.' Lily,' her mother said fondly, 'you're very close to being an Eight, and when you're an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it.' But her father had already gone to the shelf and taken down the stuffed elephant which was kept there. Many of the comfort objects, like Lily's, were soft, stuffed, imaginary creatures. Jonas's had been called a bear. Here you are, Lily-billy,' he said. 'I'll come help you remove your hair ribbons. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#maturation #society #maturity