"Justice is the most "political" or institutional of the virtues. The legitimacy of a state rests upon its claim to do justice."

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Source : "Justice". Introduction to the book edited by Alan Ryan, 1993.

Alan Ryan

#Justice Quotes #Political Quotes #Virtue Quotes

“But, as old Swedish legends say, Of all the birds upon that day, The swallow felt the deepest grief, And longed to give her Lord relief, And chirped when any near would come. Hugswala swala swal honom! Meaning, as they who tell it deem, Oh, cool, oh, cool and comfort Him!”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.66
“Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?”
“The songs are all indexes of a time in the past when I was writing them.”
“As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people, greedy, barbarous and cruel.”
“It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?”
“It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone and to move an audience is the role of dance as an art.”
“The road is more important than the goal.”

Source : "Missed Opportunities". Interview with Marc Masters and Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. March 19, 2010.

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