Quotes About Balance

The only way [people] can end up equal is if they are treated unequally.

The reason the punishment should fit the crime, for example, is not to balance some mystical scale of justice but to ensure that a wrongdoer stops at a minor crime rather than escalating to a more harmful one.

The policy of deterrence is also known as the balance of terror and, during the Cold War, was called mutual assured destruction (MAD). Whatever peace a policy of deterrence may promise is fragile, because deterrence reduces violence only by a threat of violence.

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

The law may be an ass, but it is a disinterested ass, and it can weigh harms without the self-serving distortions of the perpetrator or the victim.

Our current moral understanding does not seek to balance the interests of a woman not to be raped, the interests of the men who may wish to rape her, and the interests of the husband and fathers who want to monopolize her sexuality. In an upending of the traditional valuation, the woman's ownership of her body counts for everything, and the interests of all other claimants count for nothing.

Given the costs of information, the perfect can be the enemy of the good.

Nature is a hanging judge

If a good mother is one who loves her child more than anyone else in the world, I am not a good mother. I am in fact a bad mother. I love my husband more than I love my children.

People have two sides, a good side and a bad side, a past, a future. We must embrace both in someone we love.

Today the problem that has no name is how to juggle work, love, home and children.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

By pursuing the things you love, all the other things in life will fall into order.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

No matter how it looks to us, love never loses control; the laws of our relations are as honest and as exact as the laws of physics.

The same love that made me laugh makes my cry.

Save in the office and affairs of love.

Justice from Love, and Love from Justice

I absolutely love any kind of outdoor activities like snowboarding, hiking, surfing, and laying out on the beach if I ever get the time... which is not often!

Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

Do you not see how strange and wonderful that is? That all history balances on an affair of the human heart?