As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I…

Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“While I listened to the words of homage to Mao, I remembered Mao’s awesome power, like a blanket over China threatening to smother whomever…

— Nien Cheng

“But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country’s economic achievement since the Cultural Revolution,…

— Nien Cheng

“One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party’s demand that people inform on…

— Nien Cheng

“As I gazed at Mao’s face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered…

— Nien Cheng

“For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash and advocated human relations based entirely on class allegiance. But…

— Nien Cheng

“Pilfering was common in Communist China’s state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly…

— Nien Cheng

“But if revenge is called justice, then that justice breeds yet more revenge... and then becomes a chain of hatred.”

— Pein Naruto

The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive…

— Adam Smith

“...people called it justice, but prison doesn't make everything better," he observes. "Just because someone pays a price doesn't mean they didn't steal from…

— Autumn Doughton

But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the…

— Anonymous

God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape…

— Jessie Sampter

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

— Arundhati Roy

“Plea Against the Death Penalty Look, examine, reflect. You hold capital punishment up as an example. Why? Because of what it teaches. And just…

— Victor Hugo

I have examined the death penalty under each of its two aspects: as a direct action, and as an indirect one. What does it…

— Victor Hugo