Majorities And Justice Quotes & Sayings

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas. — Steve Kanaly

Majorities and minorities cannot rightfully be taken at all into account in deciding questions of justice. — Lysander Spooner

Perhaps modern esteem for these figures serves as a reminder that, though statesmen may have to struggle mightily to advance their cause, and though they may lose on an issue or come out on the wrong side in the judgment of history, their principled determination is sufficient to win them a place in people's hearts, long after they are gone. — Chris DeRose

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles. — Sanaa Lathan

There was something about the eyes. It wasn't the shape or the color. The was no evil glint. But there was ...
... a look. It was such a look that a microbe might encounter if it could see up from the bottom end of the microscope. It said: You are nothing. It said: You are flawed, you have no value. It said: You are animal. It said: Perhaps you may be a pet, or perhaps you may be a quarry. It said: And the choice is not yours. — Terry Pratchett

I'm an idiot for thinking that one performance would change anything.
Maybe I should stop writing songs and start writing fiction. — Elizabeth Eulberg

Who are the new people when you do meet them? They're the same old people in masks.
There's nothing new about them at all. They're people. — Philip Roth

In democracy, our most important tool is to vote. But our power tool is when we have the power to influence others on who to vote for. — Ben Tolosa

This particular world is not really a world, it's a perception that you are having at the moment. — Frederick Lenz

He wondered what kind of blueprint beavers had for creating such a structure-or did they simply start aimlessly weaving stuff together until they had a dam? Did they even think about creating a dam? Maybe dams were simply accidents that resulted from their fooling around, much like the Army Corps of Engineers' accomplishments. — Patrick F. McManus

And there's the Midnight Growlers, a philosophical movement dedicated to high spiritual ideals and the pursuit of truth and -'
Beer,' said Tinto. — Robert Rankin

Majorities, as such, afford no guarantees for justice. They are men of the same nature as minorities. They have the same passions for fame, power, and money, as minorities; and are liable and likely to be equally - perhaps more than equally, because more boldly - rapacious, tyrannical and unprincipled, if intrusted with power. — Lysander Spooner

Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man. — Masataka Taketsuru

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her. — Steven Weinberg

If you militarise a situation, you beg for an armed response. — Gerry Adams

Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in. — Tina Fey

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned. — Jane Haddam