"Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined."

Alexander Pope Literature See all quotes by Alexander Pope →

React to this quote

More by Alexander Pope

“They shift the moving toyshop of their heart.”

“To err is human, to forgive divine.”

“Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.”

“Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after.”

“From old Belerium to the northern main.”

“Tell me, my soul, can this be death?”

Resonant Thoughts

"We have got to end the two-tier justice system — one for the poor and working class and one for Wall Street and the wealthy — that has existed for far too long in this country."

— Bernie Sanders

Politics1941

#justice

"You have just constructed a straw man so large you could burn it in the desert and hold an annoying festival around it."

— John Oliver

Entertainment1959–1927

#justice

"He used to define justice as "a virtue of the soul distributing that which each person deserved."

— Diogenes Laërtius

Philosophy

#justice

"Twenty-six U.S. states, including Utah in Article IV, §1, and the majority of countries around the world, formally protect women in their respective constitutions. The U.S. Constitution does not. The …"

— Kate Kelly

Literature

#justice