Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.

Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs.

No one will have mercy on those who cannot defend themselves in the Middle East.

Politicians may do as they please, so long as they violate no rule of right, no principle of justice, no law of God; but in no world, in no order, or condition, have men the right to do wrong.

I did not allow the mighty to distress the common peasant or the poverty-stricken widow.

The highest law is often the greatest wrong..

God's not unjust, he doesn't actually exist. We've been deceived. If God existed, he'd have made the world more just...

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne,—, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice can not sleep forever; that considering numbers, nature, and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation, is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest

It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong.

He who shall hurt the little wren Shall never be beloved by men.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

There was a small boy on crutches. I do not know his name, and I suspect I never will. But I will never forget his face, his smile, his sorrow. He is one of the millions robbed of hope and dignity by charlatans discussed in this book. Wherever and whoever he is, I apologize to him for not having been able to protect him from such an experience. I humbly dedicate this book to him and to the many others who have suffered because the rest of us began caring too late.

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there.

Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it.