I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished...
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John Rawls
Take lightly what you hear about individuals. We need not distort trust for our paltry little political agendas. We tend to trust soulless, carried information more than we trust soulful human beings; but really most people aren't so bad once you sit down and have...
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Criss Jami
Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of others.
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Genereux Philip
I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.
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Petek Kabakci
More Quotes By JeanJacques Rousseau
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he...
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
