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ignorance reason-why consciousness
The reason why the simpler sort are moved by authority is the consciousness of their own ignorance Richard Hooker
ignorance atheism patterns
Denial of our pattern of failure seems to be a kind of practical atheism or chosen ignorance among many believers and clergy. Richard Rohr
ignorance might bliss
Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too. Robyn Carr
ignorance
Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. Robert Silverberg
ignorance knowledge quality
Persius has justly observed, that knowledge is nothing to him who is not known by others to possess it: to the scholar himself it is nothing with respect either to honour or advantage, for the world cannot reward those qualities which are concealed from it; with respect to others it is nothing, because it affords no help to ignorance or errour. Samuel Johnson
ignorance self essence
To know what you like is the beginning of wisdom and of old age. Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life. Robert Louis Stevenson
ignorance democracy rulership
The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures Walt Whitman
ignorance opinion bernard-shaw
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion. Roger Scruton
ignorance moral splendid
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse. Robert Wright
justice politics world
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. Reinhold Niebuhr
justice suffering fairness
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. William Blackstone
justice social-justice 21st-century
I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century. Van Jones
justice community suffering
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
justice trying demand
We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable. Ursula K. Le Guin
justice joy insecurity
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court. Sandra Day O'Connor
justice abortion fetus
She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason.. Saint Basil
justice kingdoms gang
What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits. Saint Augustine
justice our-love
You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.
lust impulse primitive
The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts. Rose Macaulay
lust heat fantasy
What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust. Salman Rushdie
lust despair valleys
Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down. William Faulkner
lust everyday skins
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust. Alice Munro
lust path obstacles
I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path. Susan Sontag
lust love-and-lust company
I know love and lust don't always keep the same company. Stephenie Meyer
lust may awakening
Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening. Swami Vivekananda
lust girdles whips
Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle. John Webster
lust lightning-bolts shots
Then a lightning bolt shot straight through my skivvies. Sha-ZAM! Megan McCafferty