Books Quote by Grace Paley

I've always felt in my own small, little way that if I could just write a story where it works out well, where the…

— Paul Dini

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

— Glen Duncan

Fiction is the great repository of the moral sense. The wicked get punished.

— Anita Brookner

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

— George Will

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

— Henry David Thoreau

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

— Simone Weil

Justice for All in the World

— Confucius

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that…

— Plutarch

With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.

— Cynthia Ozick

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

— George Eliot

“In our modern world, this elemental quality of storytelling is denied. We live today in a world in which everything has its place and…

— Michael Richardson