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All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness
Sep 10, 2025
Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned
What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.
The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.
In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.
Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.
You can't kill the truth.
I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy or concentration or commitment, or anything else - is kindness. And the more in the world that you encounter kindness and cheerfulness - which is its kind of amiable uncle or aunt - the better the world always is. And all the big words: virtue, justice, truth - are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.
What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
I say that justice is truth in action.
Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly life. Freedom as an absolute is simply an assertion of man's "right" to be his own god; this means a radical denial of God's law-order. "Freedom" thus is another name for the claim by man to divinity and autonomy. It means that man becomes his own absolute.
Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
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