“In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.”
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As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.
We can only know one thing about God - that he is what we are not. Our wretchedness alone is an image of this. The more we contemplate it, the more we contemplate him.
There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.
