"The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience."

-- Harold H. Greene

#Men Quotes #Law Quotes #Justice Quotes

“When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.”
“Mom used to say I didn't run away from home my destiny just caught up with me at an early age.”
“We don't always get the kind of work we want, but we always have a choice of whether to do it with good grace or not.”
“In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.”
“Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.”
“As artists, are we quasi psychiatrists who mend the soul? Do we provide the consolations, escapes, and reassurances which enable us to survive? Or are we reporters of the truth, assembling the multiple shards of reality into intricate portraits which seek out the connections between misery and blessing, violence and wisdom? Do we protect or investigate the heart?”
“If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest.”
“Looking forward into an empty year strikes one with a certain awe, because one finds therein no recognition. The years behind have a friendly aspect, and they are warmed by the fires we have kindled, and all their echoes are the echoes of our own voices.”

Source : Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.122

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