Jacob Frank famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.

  • We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.

  • ...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

  • Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .

  • Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.

  • The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.

  • To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.

  • I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.

  • This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.

  • Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.