Jacob Frank quotes

Jacob Frank quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.”
-- Jacob Frank

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“Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.”
“We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.”
“...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Harold Kasimow (1991). “No Religion Is an Island: Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interreligious Dialogue”, Orbis Books
“Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching of the Eternal Wisdom and of history .”
“Fortunately, historians are now beginning to recognise the historic role of Islam as a liberating force for peoples oppressed by the burdens of unjust social systems.”
“The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.”

Source : "Rehnquist slams Congress over reducing sentencing discretion" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2004.
“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
“I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging.”
“This is not a reaction against a negative world. It's a response to a negative world.”
“Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.”

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