The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorise the violation of every positive law. How far that or any o...ther consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is, then, only disguise, falsehood, hypocrisy--both in himself and in regard to others. He does not wish any one to tell him t...he truth; he avoids telling it to others; and all these dispositions, so removed from justice and reason, have a natural root in his heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where myster...y begins justice ends?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us say, then, that both the realist and the antirealist accept the results of scientific investigations as "true," on a par wi...th more homely truths.... And call this acceptance of scientific truths the "core position." What distinguishes realists from antirealists, then, is what they add onto this core position ... a third alternative emerges--and an attractive one at that. It is the core position itself, and all by itself.... Let me introduce the acronym NOA (pronounced as in "Noah"), for natural ontological attitude, and, henceforth, refer to the core position under that designation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The words of the Constitution ... are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior d...ecisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically digested and arranged, so as to become attainable by one. The ...>knowledge of reasons and their conclusions constitutes abstract, that of causes and their effects, and of the laws of nature, natural science.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
God of justice, God of mercy, Make us merciful and just!... Help us see all your creation As from you a sacred trust. And when people cry in anguish For their own or others' pain, Show us ways to make a difference O dear God, make us humane!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proper office of religion is to regulate the heart of men, humanize their conduct, infuse the spirit of temperance, order, and... obedience; and as its operation is silent, and only enforces the motives of morality and justice, it is in danger of being overlooked, and confounded with these other motives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »