"Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos."

-- Peter Burke

#Order Quotes #Justice Quotes #Chaos Quotes

“I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.”

Source : "Insight, Banning the Burqa". www.sbs.com.au.
“If you can find him, then he can find you. If he wants to find you, he will.”
“The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and 80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.”
“I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays.”
“I like Goodwill and the thrift stores. I don't like going into a store and picking from a bunch of cute stuff that's already been found. One of the best parts is finding it myself.”
“Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too bigÂ—and takes on that damned capital CÂ—they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.”

Source : "The Man Who Folded Himself". Book by David Gerrold, 1973.
“If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.”
“We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.”

Source : Ronald Steel (1980). “Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)”, p.4, Transaction Publishers

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