
August 15, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
15 August 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1785)
August 15, 1773
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (1785)
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
Context: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, no American can afford to be apathetic about the problem of racial justice. It is a problem that meets every man at his front door.
1960s, The Rising Tide of Racial Consciousnes (1960)
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”
Source: 1920s, Prejudices, Third Series (1922), Ch. 3
H. Gibb et al., eds., "Mazalim", The Dictionary of Islam vol. IV (Leiden: Brill, 1991)
“The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.”
L'amour de la justice n'est en la plupart des hommes que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice.
Maxim 78.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause.”
Book I, Ch. 56. Of Prayers
Essais (1595), Book I
Context: God's justice and His power are inseparable; 'tis in vain we invoke His power in an unjust cause. We are to have our souls pure and clean, at that moment at least wherein we pray to Him, and purified from all vicious passions; otherwise we ourselves present Him the rods wherewith to chastise us; instead of repairing anything we have done amiss, we double the wickedness and the offence when we offer to Him, to whom we are to sue for pardon, an affection full of irreverence and hatred. Which makes me not very apt to applaud those whom I observe to be so frequent on their knees, if the actions nearest to the prayer do not give me some evidence of amendment and reformation