Justice is a terrible but necessary thing

Quote by Jessamyn West

Topics: Justice Quotes

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by...

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by...

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption...

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise...

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the...

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

A big iron needle stitching the country together.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults.

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

We want the facts to fit the preconceptions. When they don't it is easier to...

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth...

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty...

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.