“There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.”
Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) 264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
Message for the celebration of XXXIII World Day of Peace, 8 December 1999<br><br>Source: www.vatican.va http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/messages/peace/documents/hf_jp-ii_mes_08121999_xxxiii-world-day-for-peace_en.html
“You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.”
Carl Bernstein (1944) American journalist
Watergate journalist says media losing public's trust, 2005-04-16, Lawrence Journal-World, Dave Ranney, 2007-03-28 http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/apr/16/watergate_journalist_says/,
“The true measure of loving God is to love Him without measure.”
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) French abbot, theologian
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 395
“… love given without free will or truthfulness wasn't love at all.”
Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls
Source: City of Lost Souls
“There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
Albert Camus book The Plague
The Plague (1947)
Context: The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
“Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.”
Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
