Paracelsus Quotes

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success).

Envy is the root of the egalitarian ethos.

Homophobia is very, very difficult to root out, to extricate. That's why we have to bear witness. That's why we have to be so public about it, and that's why we can't just play footsie with it.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

Wherever injustice occurs, we all need to be concerned.

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error.

Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order.

Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice’.

To us it seems incredible that the Greek philosophers should have scanned so deeply into right and wrong and yet never noticed the immorality of slavery. Perhaps 3000 years from now it will seem equally incredible that we do not notice the immorality of our own oppression of animals.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.

So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.

No stream rises higher than its source

Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.

The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.

I think social justice is important. I think it's not fair.

You have to make those mistakes. You have to do the work. You have to fail. I also realized that I should practice what I preach, which is that if you only do get one kick at the can . . . When you go to places like Africa or Asia or the Indian sub-continent, you realize that a lot of the people there don't ever get a kick at the can. There are no "kicks" at the can - you just don't have that shot.