Arc Of The Universe Quotes

#1. The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#2. Astronomers have been bewildered by the theory of an expanding universe, but there is no less expansion in the moral infinite of the universe of man. As far as the frontiers of science are pushed back, over the extended arc of these frontiers one will hear the poet's hounds on the chase.

Saint-John Perse

#3. Loose diagnosis is causing a national drug overdose of medication. Six percent of our people are addicted to prescription drugs, and there are now more emergency room visits and deaths due to legal prescription drugs than to illegal street drugs.6

Allen Frances

#4. Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#5. The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

Theodore Parker

#6. Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease ... We advance Out of dead-ends of Poverty, Through wilderness of Superstition, Across barricades of Jim Crowism ... We advance.

Melvin B. Tolson

#7. The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

Barack Obama

#8. Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

Augustine Of Hippo

#9. I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

Lawrence Welk

#10. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.

Theodore Parker

#11. A man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice

Barack Obama

#12. We will work with industrial or Dept. Of Defence sponsorship as long as we keep our principals of openness firm we're proud to work with the military, and they respect that in turn.

Charles Vest

#13. When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.

Marianne Williamson