"Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised."

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Julian Baggini

#Heart Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us that faith is a virtue, that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence, that you believe because you believe. Once you buy into that, then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'”
“That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people. It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.”

Source : "The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630". Book by Marie Boas Hall, p. 117, April 2, 2013.
“Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.”
“They could've thrown a kitchen sink into the box and one of the guys would've headed it.”
“I know rappers who are grandparents and we still haven't conquered politics, social development, philanthropy and these are areas, as we become our parents and grandparents, that we need to hold the torch of what makes the world run and what makes communities better.”

Source : Source: chicagoist.com
“Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny, and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.”
“The people of California clearly have the right to prohibit the sale of a product that is the result of abject animal abuse.”

Source : "California files appeal to have block on foie gras ban overturned". www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2015.
“...the essential intention is the real sin. A man who cannot choose ceases to be a man.”

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