Equality Quote by Thucydides

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what are called the Rights of Man become turbulent and dangerous.

— James Russell Lowell

“It is just as often the case, however, that men are violent solely from expedience, because they believe in no higher law than the…

— David Bentley Hart

It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.

— James Russell Lowell

The tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of…

— Henry George

Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear, illusion or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority,…

— Anonymous

“Violent men, and men in authority over violent men, and the broader public that authorises those men, are not yet shamed by the harm…

— Lee Lakeman

Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked.

— Voltaire

I've always been strongly on the side of non-violence. Also, I think that if you use the wrong means, the ends themselves get distorted.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Proselytizing is only wrong if coercive or deceptive. Coercion, whether violent or not, is immoral, just as deception is immoral.

— David Novak

There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Men, it is the “legal” sensualities, the culturally acceptable indulgences, which will take us down. The long hours of indiscriminate TV watching, which is…

— R. Kent Hughes

Even the best of men in authority are liable to be corrupted by passion. We may conclude then that the law is reason without…

— Aristotle