"I am struck here by the curious..." - Quote by C S Lewis
I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.
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“The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.”
“In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.”
“Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.”
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“Right is right only when entire.”
“We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.”
“Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?”
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“Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally.”
“To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.”
“For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce.”