Quotes About Balance

True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong

When you are right, you cannot be too radical; When you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

The Universe is on the side of Justice

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpentlike qualities is to be sentimental, anemic, and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses.

Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

Not ordinarily do men achieve this balance of opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self assertive humble. ...truth is found neither in the thesis nor the antithesis, but in an emergent synthesis that reconciles the two.

I always contended that we as a race must not seek to rise from a position of disadvantage to one of advantage, but to create a moral balance in society where democracy and brotherhood would be reality for all men.

One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart—intelligence and goodness—shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature.

It must be remembered that genuine peace is not the absence of tension, but the presence of justice.

When religion becomes so involved in a future good over yonder that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

Prayer is a marvelous and necessary supplement of our feeble efforts, but it is a dangerous substitute.

It is pretty difficult to imagine a single person having, simultaneously, the characteristics of the serpent and the dove, but this is what Jesus expects. We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool.

The good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism

Our scientific power has outmatched our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguide men.

But they are balanced at the other end of the pole by the unregenerate segregationists who have declared that democracy is not worth having if it involves equality. The segregationist goal is the total reversal of all reforms, with reestablishment of naked oppression and if need be a native form of fascism.

But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

We must combine the toughness of the serpent and the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop. - Tupolski

Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Love is not wisdom, wisdom is not love. Keep that.