"Justice is happiness according to virtue."

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Source : John RAWLS (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.310, Harvard University Press

John Rawls

#Justice Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“Nothing to be honest. I am a fighter. I'm crazy already. I'm not afraid of ghosts or anything.”
“I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.”
“But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”
“A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.”

Source : George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison (2001). “Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell”, Penguin Modern Classics
“My skin burns where it meets his. It feels better than good, but it sets off a strange aching in my chest.”
“A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.”
“Scientists are educated from a very early time and a very early age to believe that the greater scientist is the scientist who makes discoveries or theories that apply to the greatest ambit of things in the world. And if you've only made a very good theory about snails, or a very good theory about some planets but not about the universe as a whole, or about all the history of humankind, then you have in some sense accepted a lower position in the hierarchy of the fame of science as it's taught to you as a young student.”

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“When I was a beggarly boy, And lived in a cellar damp, I had not a friend nor a toy, But I had Aladdin's lamp...”

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