Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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William Allen White

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

God | Heart | Justice | Man | Peace | God |

John Greenleaf Whittier

We live by Faith; but Faith is not the slave of text and legend. Reason’s voice and God’s, Nature’s and Duty’s, never are at odds. What asks our Father of His children, save justice and mercy and humility, a reasonable service of good deeds, pure living, tenderness to human needs, reverence and trust, and prayer for light to see the Master’s footprints in our daily ways? No knotted scourge nor sacrificial knife, but the calm beauty of an ordered life whose very breathing is unworded praise! A life that stands as all true lives have stood firm-rooted in the faith that God is good.

Beauty | Children | Deeds | Duty | Faith | Father | God | Good | Humility | Justice | Life | Life | Light | Mercy | Nature | Praise | Prayer | Reason | Reverence | Service | Tenderness | Trust | Beauty | God |

William Wordsworth

Say, what is Honor? – `Tis the finest sense of justice which the human mind can frame.

Honor | Justice | Mind | Sense |

Albert Einstein

I am firmly convinced that the passionate will for justice and truth has done more to improve [the human condition] than calculating political shrewdness which in the long run only breeds general mistrust.

Justice | Mistrust | Truth | Will |

Barry Goldwater

Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Justice | Moderation | Virtue | Virtue |

Barry Goldwater

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Defense | Justice | Liberty | Moderation | Virtue | Virtue | Moderation |

Helen Keller. aka Helen Adams Keller

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

Justice | People | Responsibility | Sense |

Dale R. Landry

The philosophy of restorative justice is not a new concept, but one we've forgotten. As a kid, when I broke a window next door, my grandmother took me over there to apologize. I had to find a way to pay for the window - collect bottles or mow the grass. Restorative justice is a return to the values of our grandmothers.

Justice | Philosophy |

Alan Cohen

Trust frees you to see the wisdom of the moment. The goodness of life is invincible, and in Justice is your assurance of success. The laws of consciousness work consistently for your highest good. They offer you consolation and guidance. You now embody the choice to earn your goal, which is at hand.

Choice | Consciousness | Consolation | Good | Guidance | Justice | Life | Life | Success | Trust | Wisdom | Work |

Albert Camus

We know that we live in contradiction, but that we must refuse this contradiction and do what is needed to reduce it. Our task as men is to find those few first principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice in the world which is so obviously unjust, and make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century.

Contradiction | Justice | Men | Nations | Principles | Will | World | Happiness |