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“And when compliance was not forthcoming, either because people didn’t understand me or wouldn’t do something to my disadvantage, I was wrathful that my…

— Augustine

“But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of…

— C.S. Lewis

“expedience could not take precedence over the pursuit of justice.”

— Jessica Shattuck

“Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them. Reckless audacity came to be considered the courage…

— Thucydides

“Unjust! - unjust!' said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power; and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange…

— Charlotte Bronte

“opprobrious term, employed to impose contempt upon”

— Jabari Asim

“though the interest of the labourer is strictly connected with that of the society, he is incapable either of comprehending that interest, or of…

— Adam Smith

“[Justice] demands seclusion, it permits sorrow rather than anger, and it prescribes the most careful abstention from all the nice pleasures of putting oneself…

— Hannah Arendt

“Though the motives which governed me may to you very naturally appear insufficient, I have not yet learned to condemn them.”

— Jane Austen

“X. Labour not as one to whom it is appointed to be wretched, nor as one that either would be pitied, or admired; but…

— Marcus Aurelius

“But a man of tender sensitivities finds disruption unpleasant; he finds it unpleasant to break in on a well-constructed train of thought with his…

— Thomas Mann

“Some are 'industrious' and appear to love labor for its own sake, or perhaps because it keeps them out of worse mischief; to such…

— Henry David Thoreau