Neil Gaiman Quotes

Clever tyrants are never punished.

I know we can't abolish prejudice through laws, but we can set up guidelines for our actions by legislation.

Discrimination is not liberal. Arguing against discrimination is not intolerance.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.

Let not the hatred of others make you avoid justice.

Openness is the natural enemy of arbitrariness.

We must be ever on our guard, lest we erect our prejudices into legal principles.

This country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of non-discrimination.

Do not hear one and judge two.

I am an enemy of racism

She will sooner abdicate than send for or have any communication with that half mad firebrand who would soon ruin everything & be a Dictator. Others but herself may submit to his democratic rule but not the Queen.

Do not allow your hatred of a people to incite you not to act equitably.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

No one should discriminate.

I hate prejudice, discrimination, and snobbishness of any kind - it always reflects on the person judging and not the person being judged. Everyone should be treated equally.

What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.

Prejudice has no hold in this Republic.

'Fair' is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is 'fair,' this means that there must be some third party with power - the government - to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with 'fairness'.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

Excellence is the best weapon against prejudice.

A nation ignorant of the equal benefits of liberty and law, must be awed by the flashes of arbitrary power: the cruelty of a despot will assume the character of justice; his profusion, of liberality; his obstinacy, of firmness.

To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. "Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are." No axiom in politics is more certain than this.

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

The stories are most often about justice. In her stories, those who commit injustice, or act tyrannically, come to no good. They are punished.