The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden. Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; law, social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings... ALDOUS HUXLEY The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings... ALDOUS HUXLEY The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN When, we surrender to the universe, we are its instruments; when we rebel against the universe, stil... DR HITESH C SHETH The problem lies in interpretation. A nude should be accepted for its face value an exploration o... GREG GORMAN The longest day must have its close --the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, ine... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inex... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Love can be simply stated to be the desire of the human being to integrate oneself with other selves... AWDHESH SINGH Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to ... ALAN W. WATTS Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the in... OSCAR WILDE The love of glory gives an immense stimulus. OVID The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its mat... LEONARDO DAVINCI The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its mat... LEONARDO DA VINCI The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poison... BODHIDHARMA Our system is not one of justice, but of law EDNA BUCHANAN The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and ... JIMMY CARTER Laws do not persuade because they threaten SENECA Lawyers (are) operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass JANE BRYANT QUINN Term rates keep dropping and dropping and dropping; it's just amazing. JANE BRYANT QUINN These people are so damned proud of their hatred! Hatred is easy, and lazy to boot. It’s love that... ERIKA JOHANSEN Its a shame that the heart does not have a delete button. Pictures, letters, gifts and all visiable ... STARGAZER The best hiding place was love. Thus the conversion from pristine sadism to fabricated hatred, to fr... TONI MORRISON The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for pe... ALBERT EINSTEIN God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of... JOHN CALVIN God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of... JOHN CALVIN When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned wit... JOHN FOXE "If friends are like flowers, you will find God's fairest gems, in the garden of love and kindness."... TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR. The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is... GERRY SPENCE A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it ... ARISTIDE BRIAND The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if ... VICTOR HUGO you left and i wanted you still yet i deserved someone who was willing to stay RUPI KAUR The wrong decision in this case could be a fatal one. GARY GAMBARDELLA My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The c... MARK TWAIN My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The c... MARK TWAIN A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a con... LUCILLE KALLEN All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of or... EDMUND BURKE When you do community building, you fight for social justice and human rights in schools and jobs an... FRANCES PRATT The love of glory gives an immense stimulus.
[Lat., Immensum gloria calcar habet.] OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) Well, why would you create something that had the power to hurt You? Or any of Your creatures? Why d... LEV GROSSMAN Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones ... KOFI ANNAN Small men command the letter of the law. Great men serve its spirit. For the spirit of the law is ju... J.C. MARINO Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and pe... FEDERICA MOGHERINI No injustice ever takes place in this universe. Whatsoever happens is always just and right, for the... OSHO Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bib... JUDITH MCNAUGHT Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law d... ADA CAMBRIDGE When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of your... FRANK HERBERT We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrou... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law d... ADA CAMBRIDGE Look, I'm wrong sometimes. This is one of the times I hope I am. GARY GAMBARDELLA The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a st... EDWARD ABBEY The ultimate relationship between justice and law will be an eternal subject for speculation and ana... ROBERT KENNEDY Life, it is not simple like a garden, where flowers are always flowers and weeds are always weeds. LESLEY KAGEN Crack had a social logic to it, a specific kind of reasoning that drew from a vast well of common ex... DIMITRI A. BOGAZIANOS The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured m... SUSAN SONTAG To fully absorb the lessons of the Internet, urge the Internet-centrists, we need to reshape our pol... EVGENY MOROZOV Jealousy and Greed are like a small fire in a wood it can soon turn into a fire out of control and l... GARY F EVANS... Not only has the Iraqi government failed to provide minimal protection for its citizens, it has acti... DR. WILLIAM F. SCHULZ Men are admitted into heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no pas... WILLIAM BLAKE Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by h... FRANK HERBERT I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we... THADDEUS GOLAS Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about ... STEPHEN HARPER We don't need love to be eternal, only to be in our lives here and now. MARTY RUBIN Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correctin... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. It appears that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is making a genuine effort to reform its economy and ad... ROB PORTMAN Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments. ELIE WIESEL Be brave. Be free from philosophies, prophets and holy lies. Go deep into your feelings and explore ... AMIT RAY I can see only three planets in the entire universe, namely Heaven, Earth and Me! Heaven shines its ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he... ALBERT CAMUS The Qur'an, throughout all of its verses, aims mainly to establish and confirm four basic, unive... SAID NURSI The heinous nature of the crime. The cover-up afterwards. The denial. They were all, to me, earmarks... GARY GAMBARDELLA Call your credit-card company and see if they'll lower your interest rate on your debts. JANE BRYANT QUINN While Maddox now believed the demon did not want to hurt Ashlyn, he wasn't willing to take a chance.... GENA SHOWALTER What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, be... EDGAR QUINET The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the ... JOSEPH BRODSKY Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps... HANS URS VON BALTHASAR The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws. BEN WHISHAW You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, dri... GERALDINE BROOKS Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God ALFRED WHITEHEAD Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD keep love in your heart. A life without is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead ... ARSHDEEP SINGH SAMRALA Neil Young is the embodiment of rock and roll in all of its howling, exuberant, spontaneous, pissed-... CATHY NORDEN Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this i... BUDDHA Although the US government continues to assert its condemnation of torture and ill-treatment, these ... CURT GOERING The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me ... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed ... JOHN MCAFEE Take these broken wings and learn to fly. PAUL MCCARTNEY It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship. FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Because you are habituated to be in suffering, Bliss looks a disturbance to you! PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal realit... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Have you ever seen a child sitting on its mother’s knee listening to fairy stories? As long as the... SELMA LAGERLöF However human, envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can elimin... F.A. HAYEK Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life. SMILEY BLANTON Underlying these novel debt structures were the human emotions of greed and fear that led to abuses ... MICHAEL LEWITT We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We ne... DAVID SUZUKI You promise." "I swear on the angel. The hell with that. I swear on us." "Why us?" "Because there is... CASSANDRA CLARE
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