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The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping.


Dean Koontz

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AILEEN LEE Dean Koontz is good in the silence makes silence... then he just attacks!
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ABHISHEK KUMAR Mr. Ruebhausen was a man who was deeply interested in social justice, who wanted to make the Yale La...
DAVID ROBINSON You have to educate religious bodies that social justice is faith in action.
LINDA HILTON Envy plus rhetoric equals "social justice.".
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DR. A'YANNA WEBSTER But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.
DAR WILLIAMS We need the Bible to find a unifying, God-centered, and gospel-centered expression of justice and ri...
JESSICA NICHOLAS If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
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CRISS JAMI Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.
PHILIP GOUREVITCH I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt i...
C.S. LEWIS Those who look on other people's misery with indifference are the most
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RITWIK GHATAK The University is already committed on paper to social justice. Sometimes the University does things...
ARIANNE PETERSON People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
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DAVID JABER Our spirit is to be considerate and have compassion for people. It's a social responsibility.
ALAN WONG Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II I do what I can,' I said. 'When I can do more, I will. You know that.
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LINDA FLYNN The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
SALVA KIIR MAYARDIT After the Democrats' obstructionist approach to Social Security reform, it is more difficult for the...
MAYA MACGUINEAS There is a social responsibility for those in the know to protect those that do not know.
STEVEN MAGEE Businesses should be focused on business, and social responsibility should be government responsibil...
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SERJ TANKIAN God’s justice is satisfied when there is restoration.
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JESSICA NICHOLAS The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
DAVID SUZUKI We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environme...
BARBARA BOXER In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.
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DEAN KOONTZ Only when we regain some social justice, more social welfare, more real wage increases, only then ca...
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MARGARITA LOPEZ Social change comes through people.
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MICHELLE OBAMA Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.
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SIMON TAM Social justice is what drives me; it's why I'm here.
KATHLEEN WYNNE The scales of justice are tilted by money
It's rather ironic but far from funny
The powerf...
JUSTIN WETCH Sometimes I make it to parties and sometimes I don't. Social life is always something you can go...
CARMEN BUSQUETS God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that wor...
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DEAN KOONTZ I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
DEAN KOONTZ That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.
DEAN KOONTZ Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.
DEAN KOONTZ The sky is deep, the sky is dark. The light of the stars is o damn stark/When I look up, I fill with...
DEAN KOONTZ The galleon clouds seemed to have dropped anchor in the sky, and the night appeared to have frozen i...
DEAN KOONTZ Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog...
DEAN KOONTZ it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a...
DEAN KOONTZ Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it ...
DEAN KOONTZ Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life c...
DEAN KOONTZ There’s such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But ...
DEAN KOONTZ He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was s...
DEAN KOONTZ The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any rea...
DEAN KOONTZ He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not ...
DEAN KOONTZ His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cat...
DEAN KOONTZ The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them...
DEAN KOONTZ But this animal’s unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis’s in...
DEAN KOONTZ You amaze me and scare me. I can’t figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, b...
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