"The promulgation of the great doctrines of religion, the being, and attributes, and providence of one Almighty God: the responsibility to him for all our actions, founded upon moral freedom and accountability; a future state of rewards and punishments; the cultivation of all the personal, social, and benevolent virtues-these these never can be a matter of indifference in any well-ordered community. It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how any civilized society can exist without them."

Source : Joseph Story (1833). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.699

Joseph Story

#Responsibility Quotes #Punishment Quotes #Community Quotes

“It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.”
“In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.”
“Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.”
“I once asked [John] Lennon what he thought of what I do. He said 'it's great, but its just rock and roll with lipstick on'.”
“For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.”

Source : Harold W. Percival (2002). “Thinking And Destiny”, p.857, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.”
“A world is to be fought for, sung, and built: Love must imagine the world.”

Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.102, Northwestern University Press
“Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com

You may also like: