Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes

There is and must be a remedy for all Evils.

Vengeance is not the point: change is.

I hate to be a kicker, I always long for peace, But the wheel that does the squeaking, is the one that gets the grease.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.

It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed.

Councell breakes not the head.

In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

Is it fair for the bears to come down to where humans live, looking for food? Is it fair for the Duke's soldiers to shoot at them? Is it fair for the bears to crush them with giant snowballs? Often, if you point out something that isn't fair, someone will reply, "Life isn't fair." What is to be done with such people?

The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.

Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

One who steals has no right to complain if he is robbed.

You cannot solve a problem by condemning it

Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

It is easier to recount grievances and slights than it is to set down a broad redress of such grievances and slights. The reason is that one fears to be thought of as an arrant braggart.

To me, you can't win. You can't win. There's a war in Iraq; there's no way that they're ending that. The war in Afghanistan is still going on. There's no way that's going to end anytime soon. You can complain about it, you can throw rocks at it, but you really have to come to the conclusion that this is a really twisted place sometimes and some stuff you're not going to win.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

The longer we remain in Iraq the more our occupation becomes part of the problem... rather than the solution.

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

Love and ever more love is the only solution to every problem that comes up.

You can only have lasting peace based on justice.

I snore. I've had two or three people complain about it.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong.