"Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Ideas Quotes #Justice Quotes #Brain Quotes

“The free market economy is supposed to be the only path leading to the happiness of humanity by promoting wealth and prosperity, power and influence of nations.”
“At sea let the British their neighbors defy-The French shall have frigates to traverse the sky.”

Source : "Poems on Various Subjects: But Chiefly Illustrative of the Events and Actors in the American War of Independence".
“You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.”
“We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change.”
“My bodyÂ is a gradual work of art”
“Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create new methods and styles that differ in structure, form, and content from the past.”
“Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!”

Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.91, Macmillan
“There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.”

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