The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul -- breaking the mental manacles -- getting the brain out of bondage -- giving courage to thought -- filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.
Robert G. IngersollTag: science justice courage joy mercy skepticism glory bondage
Not one of the orthodox ministers dare preach what he thinks if he knows a majority of his congregation think otherwise. He knows that every member of his church stands guard over his brain with a creed, like a club, in his hand. He knows that he is not expected to search after the truth, but that he is employed to defend the creed. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
Robert G. IngersollTag: truth justice skepticism pulpit
Feminism has both undone the hierarchy in which the elements aligned with the masculine were given greater value than those of the feminine and undermined the metaphors that aligned these broad aspects of experience with gender. So, there goes women and nature. What does it leave us with? One thing is a political mandate to decentralize privilege and power and equalize access, and that can be a literal spatial goal too, the goal of our designed landscapes and even the managed ones -- the national parks, forests, refuges, recreation areas, and so on.
Rebecca SolnitTag: justice environment feminism landscape 285
God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.
Pope Benedict XVIIt is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas JeffersonTag: justice tyranny prison danger law torture
Jesus Christ.” The fury on Nick’s face was enough to send me reeling and he hit the table hard enough with his hand that it made the plates and the silverware on the table bounce and clatter. “You give me the names and approximate location of those men who gave you that ultimatum and I’ll kill every goddamned one of them.”
I sighed before I said quietly. “I already did.
A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.
Massad AyoobGod, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.
Alexandre DumasThe law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
John MarshallTag: innocence justice trial law guilt courts legality
If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.
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