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If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Quote by Francis Bacon about rightness, justice

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis

Quote by Dante Alighieri about hell, moral

The force of vapour is another fertile source of moving power; but even in this case it cannot be maintained that power is created.

Quote by Charles Babbage about power, force, police

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about mind, human imperfections

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Quote by Irving Babbitt

The Lakers were able to maintain a certain level of talent and success, and so were the Celtics. It became part of people's sports lore.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about talent, people

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

Quote by Gerry Adams about change, day

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

Quote by Simone de Beauvoir about life

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about change

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.

Quote by Albert Camus about friendship, opinion, good, good luck

I have always maintained that society has no business dictating morality.

Quote by Peter Fonda about morality, society, affair

Perhaps the grimmest aspect of this great paradox is that the very nations that are chiefly responsible for starting and for maintaining the Disarmament Conference are also the nations that have begun a new arms race.

Quote by Arthur Henderson about nation

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Quote by Frank Herbert about common sense, sense

Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about computers, complexity

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about world

Funding and maintaining programs from Head Start to Pell Grants must be a high priority.

Quote by Ed Pastor about heads

How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in...

Quote by Walter Pater about concentration, force, present, numbers, life

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

Quote by Walter Pater about life

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about family, parents, children

China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.

Quote by Li Peng about country, wealth, world