"Conscience is a just but weak judge...." - Quote by Khalil Gibran
Conscience is a just but weak judge. Weakness leaves it powerless to execute its judgment.
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“The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.”
“You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.”
“We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.”
More on Conscience
“Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.”
“One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.”
“Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”
More on Justice
“Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.”
“The state machine, including the army, the police and the courts, is the instrument with which one class oppresses another. It is an instrument of oppression against all hostile classes; it means violence and is certainly not anything 'benevolent.' 'You are merciless.' Quite so. We definitely do not adopt a benevolent policy towards the reactionary activities of the reactionaries and the reactionary classes.”
“The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.”