
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
- Topic: Fear, Justice, Love
- Location: Glacier National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.
› Mark Twain
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
› John D. Rockefeller
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
› Niccolo Machiavelli
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
› Francis Quarles
There is but one thing of real value—to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.
› Marcus Aurelius
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
› James Baldwin
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
› Eleanor Roosevelt
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.
› Albert Einstein
My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
› Mohandas Gandhi
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.
› William Faulkner
Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.
› Adam Smith
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
› Plato
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh unless, since their chief purpose is to make us bear with patience the injustice of our fellows.
› Moliere
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property will be safe.
› Frederick Douglass
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
› Abraham Lincoln
Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills.
› Leo Tolstoy
You cannot save people. You can only love them.
› Anais Nin
They fear love because it creates a world they can't control.
› George Orwell
Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.
› John James Ingalls
Love is reflected in love.
› Mary Baker Eddy
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
› Martin Luther King Jr.
People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
› Nelson Mandela
Until you get comfortable with being alone, you’ll never know if you’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness.
› Mandy Hale
To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life.
› Pablo Neruda
