#witness

When about to commit a base deed, respect thyself, though there is no witness. ↗

— Ausonius

#base #commit #deed #respect #though

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. ↗

— Alastair Campbell

#close #closest #closest friend #death #died

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#aware #building #contained #energy #whenever

The new social question is: democracy or the rule of the financial markets. We are currently witnessing the end of an era. The neoliberal ideology has failed worldwide. The U.S. movement Occupy Wall Street is a good example of this. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#democracy #end #era #example #failed

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. ↗

— Heraclitus

#justice #lies #overtake #will #witnesses

And I remember that the editors wanted to have a witness to say that this was really the case, because it was a very sharp picture of the just the face, the head of the fetus inside the womb. ↗

— Lennart Nilsson

#case #editors #face #fetus #head

As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#living #mystery #witness #art

If you witness evil men committing evil deeds and do nothing, what does that make you? ↗

— K.L. Toth

#moral #philosophy #witness #men

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#story #witness #life

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. ↗

— John Foxe

#accuser #against #allowed #every #evidence