Antony Flew Quotes

'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it.

The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.

The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

To do wrong is the greatest of evils.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

Wrong must not win by technicalities.

Dying is not a crime.

Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.

Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

The so-called godly man may be more likely to do serious wrong than a man who deeply questions himself. The 'godly man' often zealously follows religious precepts that, in the end, justify an unjust injury to others, while the questioning man, addressing his own conscience, may have the better chance to consider all the circumstances and come to the just decision.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.