John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IV, Section 40, p. 256
1963, Address at the Free University of Berlin
John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IV, Section 40, p. 256
“The suppression of liberty is always likely to be irrational.”
John Rawls book A Theory of Justice
Source: A Theory of Justice (1971; 1975; 1999), Chapter IV, Section 33, p. 210
“Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer
That differences of race, color, and creed are natural, and that diverse groups, institutions, and ideas are stimulating factors in the development of man;
That to promote harmony in diversity is a responsible task of religion and statesmanship;
That since no individual can express the whole truth, it is essential to treat with understanding and good will those whose views differ from our own;
That by the testimony of history intolerance is the door to violence, brutality and dictatorship; and
That the realization of human interdependence and solidarity is the best guard of civilization.
Declaration of INTERdependence (1945)
Swami Narayanananda (1902–1988) Indian guru
Brahman and the Universe (1978), in Minor Works II (2001), p. 62
Alberto Gonzales (1955) 80th United States Attorney General
Speech regarding Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism (November 20, 2006)
Ali (601–661) cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol. 78, p. 6
Regarding Knowledge & Wisdom, Religious
“A totalitarian dictatorship cannot explain; it can only suppress.”
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
Soviet Labor Camps, p. 211
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
Hadewijch (1200–1260) 13th-century Dutch poet and mystic
Visions
Context: One Pentecost at dawn I had a vision. Matins were being sung in the church and I was there. And my heart and my veins and all my limbs trembled and shuddered with desire. And I was in such a state as I had been so many times before, so passionate and so terribly unnerved that I thought I should not satisfy my Lover and my Lover not fully gratify me, then I would have to desire while dying and die while desiring. At that time I was so terribly unnerved with passionate love and in such pain that I imagined all my limbs breaking one by one and all my veins were separately in tortuous pain. The state of desire in which I then was cannot be expressed by any words or any person that I know. And even that which I could say of it would be incomprehensible to all who hadn't confessed this love by means of acts of passion and who were not known by Love. This much I can say about it: I desired to consummate my Lover completely and to confess and to savour in the fullest extent--to fulfil his humanity blissfully with mine and to experience mine therein, and to be strong and perfect so that I in turn would satisfy him perfectly: to be purely and exclusively and completely virtuous in every virtue. And to that end I wished, inside me, that he would satisfy me with his Godhead in one spirit (1 Cor 6:17) and he shall be all he is without restraint. For above all gifts I could choose, I choose that I may give satisfaction in all great sufferings. For that is what it means to satisfy completely: to grow to being god with God. For it is suffering and pain, sorrow and being in great new grieving, and letting this all come and go without grief, and to taste nothing of it but sweet love and embraces and kisses. Thus I desired that God should be with me so that I should be fulfilled together with him.
“Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.”
Livy (-59–17 BC) Roman historian
Book XXII, sec. 39
History of Rome