Peace without justice is tyranny
Interpretation
True peace cannot exist without justice; otherwise, it leads to oppression.
This quote highlights the profound connection between peace and justice, asserting that a society that claims to be peaceful yet allows injustices to persist is not truly liberated. Instead, such conditions foster a sense of tyranny where individuals may feel oppressed, undermining the very essence of freedom and harmony.
In practice
Using this quote during a discussion on social justice.
So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold β by voice, by posted card, by letter or by press. Reason never has failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick it when you give it away - and it is the biggest kick of all.
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to others.
Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Any appeasement of tyranny is treason.
Don't consider our interests or desires. You have no duty to anyone but yourself.
Whose rights will we acknowledge? Whose human dignity will we respect? For whose well-being will we, as a people, assume responsibility?
We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of time and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom.
The fly that touches honey cannot use it's wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it's freedom and hinders contemplation.
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
You have to have hope. It's irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think it's irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of.
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