…sentences of the court on moral issues are always passed in absentia.
– Yevgeny Zamyatin
Related Quotes:
- Our Supreme Court is not a court of law. It is a court of conjecture and political fad. – AE Samaan
- The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- You can only love something that refuses to be mastered. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The government (or humanity) would not permit capital punishment for one man, but they permitted the murder of millions a little at a time. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- And how can there be a final revolution? There is no final one. The number of revolutions is infinite. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional – and not some other kind of reality. – Yevgeny Zamyatin
- I listened as the words became sentences and the sentences became pages and the pages became feelings and voices and places and people. – Jennifer Donnelly
- The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion. – AE Samaan
- In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues…. – George Orwell
- Reduce inflammation to treat the root of many issues. If your gut isn’t working right it can cause so many other issues. – Jay Woodman
- Reduce inflammation to treat the root of many issues. If your gut isn’t working right it can cause so many other issues. – Jay Woodman
- Two things I’ve learned: 1) you simply cannot change someone’s mind on certain issues and 2) some issues are so important you cannot stop trying to. – JSB Morse
- Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers.-Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift – Tamora Pierce
- The Holiness of God is something more and other than moral perfection: His claim upon us is something more and other than the claim of moral duty. – CS Lewis
- The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments. – Ayn Rand
- Part of the human makeup which distinguishes man from other creatures is his ability to reason and make moral decisions. Man is a free moral agent. – Billy Graham
- We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God’s moral code. – Billy Graham
- When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror. – Peter Boghossian
- Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral. – Gore Vidal
- There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena – Friedrich Nietzsche
- The point of protesting about ‘moral equivalence’ is surely not to blur moral choices on -˜our side’. Is it? – Christopher Hitchens
- I can’t accept that a work of fiction should be either immoral or moral. It should merely show the world as it is and have no moral bias. – Anthony Burgess
- An oligarchy does not require a good and moral citizenry but a Constitutional Republic does. If we lose our moral comp???, we lose our country. – R A Delmonico
- A moral dilemma can be large or small, important or inconsequential, urgent or secondary. One thing is certain: moral dilemmas are ever present. – Michael J Marx
- When love arrests your heart, pray she sentences it for eternity. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- You will have the grace of writing, when you boldly begin to write your first sentences. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- We live longerbut less preciselyand in shorter sentences. – Wisawa Szymborska
- To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences. – Markus Zusak
- If you start most of your sentences with ‘Why Can’t’, ‘Why Not’, or ‘What if’, you’ll build a stronger imagination. – Corey Aaron Burkes
- Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace! – Aneta Cruz
- Evolution did not design us to believe only true facts, nor to buy only useful products, nor to say only meaningful sentences – Piero Scaruffi
- By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass. – Richelle E Goodrich
- We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of ‘proving theorems.’ Is a writer’s job mainly that of ‘writing sentences? – GianCarlo Rota
- Mother????ers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over. – Junot Daz
- I am made of words. When you cut me, I bleed sentences. When you read me, I speak to your soul. – Chloe Thurlow
- I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It’s entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences. – Caitln R Kiernan