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«No one can demand that you be neutral toward the crime of genocide. If there is a judge in the whole world who can be neutral toward this crime, that judge is not fit to sit in judgment.»
Author: Gideon Hausner
| About:
Juries and Judges
| Keywords:
fit to, genocide, neutral, not neutral, sit in
«No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.»
«Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.»
«Holy men? Holy cabbages! Holy bean-pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat? If that be holiness, I could show you hogs in this forest who are fit to head the calendar. Think you it was for such a life that this good arm was fixed upon my shoulder, or that head placed upon your neck? There is work in the world, man, and it is not by hiding behind stone walls that we shall do it.»
«If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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Life
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discovered, fit, fit to
«Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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evident, fit to, maxim, proposition, resolved
«Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
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Wealth
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by fits and starts, fit, fit to, inherit, inheriting, inherits
«I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.»
«No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.»
«No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation»
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