Due Applied Pressure

Famous quotes containing the words due, applied and/or pressure:

“You shall not pervert the justice due to your poor in their lawsuits.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 23:6.

“Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.”
—Joseph Ratzinger (b. 1927)

“Much of the pressure contemporary parents feel with respect to dressing children in designer clothes, teaching young children academics, and giving them instruction in sports derives directly from our need to use our children to impress others with our economic surplus. We find “good” rather than real reasons for letting our children go along with the crowd.”
—David Elkind (20th century)