Inexorable Quotes - Page 6

• It is time that we labored for the happiness of the people. Legislators who are to bring light and order into the world must pursue their course with inexorable tread, fearless and unswerving as the sun.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Light, Order, People

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention (December 27, 1792), as quoted in "Oeuvres Completes de Saint-Just", Volume 1, edited by Charles Vellay (p. 383), 1908.

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• Las últimas consecuencias del espíritu individualista en la vida económica son las que vosotros mismos, Venerables Hermanos y Amados Hijos, veis y deploráis: La libre competencia se ha destruido a sí misma; la dictadura económica ha suplantado al libre mercado; la ambición desenfrenada de poder ha sucedido igualmente a la codicia de lucro; toda la vida económica se ha vuelto trágicamente dura, inexorable y cruel.

  Pope Pius XI

  Children, Ambition, Greed

  Catholic Church. Pope (1922-1939 : Pius XI), Pope Pius XI (1947). “On reconstructing the social order: (Quadragesimo anno)”

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• Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

  Henry R. Luce

  Reading, Past, Defense

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• Embracing a certain quotient of racial bias and discrimination against the poor is an inexorable aspect of supporting capital punishment. This is an immoral condition that makes rejecting the death penalty on moral grounds not only defensible but necessary for those who refuse to accept unequal or unjust administration of punishment.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Punishment, Unjust, Administration

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