Education Quote by Jacques Barzun

“Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about people in the past are…

— Jacques Barzun

“Rendering moral judgements in retrospect can be hazardous. It is unfair to judge the past by the standards of the present. Yet we can…

— Jon Meacham

The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own time.

— Anthony Kennedy

If we read the words and attitudes of the past through the pompous "wisdom" of the considered moral judgments of the present, we will…

— Mark Twain

The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.

— Plato

There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line…

— Douglas Hurd

No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is.

— Isaac Rosenfeld

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

— Plato

“The absence of judgment becomes a catalyst and an enabler for greater injustice. Contrary to popular thought, judgment is a GOOD thing when it…

— J. Chace Gordon

“Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.”

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

Injustice in this world is not something comparative; the wrong is deep, clear, and absolute in each private fate.

— George Santayana

Historical explanation is not identical with moral judgment.

— Moses Finley