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Socrates8 quotes
The unexamined life is not worth living. — Socrates · 399 BCI know that I do not know. — Socrates · 399 BCSocrates, he says, breaks the law by corrupting young men and not recognizing the gods that the city recognizes, but some other new deities. — Socrates · 399 BCTo fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. — Socrates · 399 BCVirtue does not come from money, but from virtue comes money and all other good things to man, both to the individual and to the state. — Socrates · 399 BCBut already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is not known to anyone except God. — Socrates · 399 BCAll 8 quotes →Eugene Debs2 quotes
Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. — Eugene Debs · 1918When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. — Eugene Debs · 1918Mahatma Gandhi2 quotes
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show to my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiples evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. — Mahatma Gandhi · 1922Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed. — Mahatma Gandhi · 1922Roger Casement2 quotes
Self-government is our right, a thing born in us at birth, a thing no more to be doled out to us, or withheld from us, by another people than the right to life itself-than the right to feel the sun, or smell the flowers, or to love our kind. — Roger Casement · 1916Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to think their own thoughts, to sing their own songs, to garner the fruits of their own labors... Then surely it is braver, a saner and truer thing, to be a rebel in act and deed against such circumstances as these than tamely to accept it as the natural lot of men. — Roger Casement · 1917Clarence Darrow1 quote
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all agnosticism means. — Clarence Darrow · 1925George Graham Vest1 quote
The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.... When all other friends desert, he remains. — George Graham Vest · 1870Henry Peter Brougham1 quote
An advocate, by the sacred duty which he owes his client, knows, in the discharge of that office, but one person in the world, that client and none other. To save that client... Is the highest and most unquestioned of his duties; And he must not regard the alarm, the suffering, the torment, the destruction which he may bring upon any other. Nay... He must go on reckless of the consequences, if his fate, it should unhappily be, to involve his country in confusion for his client's protection. — Henry Peter Brougham · 1820John Adams1 quote
The law, in all vicissitudes of government, fluctuations of the passions, or flights of enthusiasm, will preserve a steady undeviating course; it will not bend to the uncertain wishes, imaginations, and wanton tempers of men... On the one hand it is inexorable to the cries and lamentations of the prisoners; on the other it is deaf, deaf as an adder to the clamours of the populace. — John Adams · 1770Johnnie Cochran1 quote
If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. — Johnnie Cochran · 1995Nelson Mandela1 quote
During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in har¬ mony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die. — Nelson Mandela · 1964Robert H. Jackson1 quote
If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime. — Robert H. Jackson · 1946