John Major Quotes

There's a difference in being opinionated and judgmental; I'm still trying to figure out what that fine line is - I think we are all.

If we stand idly by while states legalize bigotry, we are responsible for allowing it to happen.

I'm certainly not a prude.

He who allows oppression shares the crime.

We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.

If any man err from the right way, it is his own misfortune, no injury to thee; nor therefore art thou to punish him in the things of this life because thou supposest he will be miserable in that which is to come.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

This could never be a crime in any society which deems itself enlightened.

Pardon one offence and you encourage the commission of many.

A judge who cannot punish, associates himself in the end with the criminal.

Everything is blurred on what's right and what's wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.

We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?

Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.

Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well.

Many commit the same crimes with a very different result. One bears a cross for his crime; another a crown.

Let's stop being so damn judgemental & crucifying everyone who doesn't fit into our boxed-in perceptions of what is right.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

The heart never knows the colour of the skin

People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" - and self-esteem to boot.