Balanced Quotes

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work.