While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.C. S. Lewis
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.C. S. Lewis
We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.Plato
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.Simone de Beauvoir
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.Blaise Pascal
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.Blaise Pascal
