There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
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Unknown
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.
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Cornel West
Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
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Iain Pears
Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice.
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Michael J. Sandel
(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)
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Michael J. Sandel
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My father once told me that American democracy is a people’s democracy at heart, and that it therefore can be as great as the American people, or as fallible. It depends on all of us. But our system is more fragile than we know. To...
Pioneering is never done in front of cheerleaders urging on a roaring grandstand of popular approval.
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Humor is a powerful tool, and some of these politicians are so far out and easy to lampoon. They just provide such delicious opportunity.
I do find things funny. When you see life through the eyes of someone with a good sense of humor, which my grandmother did, life is a human comedy.
