#witness

We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#century #countryside #dumped #engage #european

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

— Ausonius

#base #commit #deed #respect #though

That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#administered #alleged #apprehend #between #cases

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

The statements of four witnesses of unquestioned integrity, traveling with me that day, attest that such comments were never made and confirm that it simply did not happen. ↗

— Paul Crouch

#comments #confirm #day #did #four

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

As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#done #things #were #witnesses

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. ↗

— Heraclitus

#justice #lies #overtake #will #witnesses

When you deal with your brother, be pleasant, but get a witness. ↗

— Hesiod

#deal #get #pleasant #witness #you