Quotes About Justice

To Fate, a fickle mistress whose sense of justice is exceeded only by her sense of humor.

Give the world half of what Nina Simone gave it, and you have lived an exceptional life.

Those who committed atrocities always seemed to do so out of a misconceived sense of righteousness and the greater good.

There is little opiate delusion in Jesus's grim warning to his comrades that if they were true to his Gospel of love and justice, they would meet the same sticky end as him. The measure of your love in his view is whether they kill you or not.

We are not optimists; we do not present a lovely vision of the world which everyone is expected to fall in love with. We simply have, wherever we are, some small local task to do, on the side of justice, for the poor. —HERBERT MCCABE, OP

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

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Kultura je kroz povijest bila uskra?ena golemoj ve?ini, a onih nekoliko sretnika koji danas od nje žive, žive na ra?un rada onih koji to ne mogu.

Para se tornar socialista, é preciso estar razoavelmente bem de vida, tanto no sentido literal quanto no sentido metafórico do termo

observar que alguns são miseráveis enquanto outros são prósperos é mais ou menos como afirmar que o mundo contém ao mesmo tempo detetives e criminosos. E é verdade, mas isso encobre o fato de que existem detetives porque existem criminosos...

Morality cannot be divorced from power.

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Right and wrong are not the product of census.

If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.

Wizard's Eighth Rule Talga Vassternich. (Deserve Victory)

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.

I will give you war; a real war, not a slaughter of women and children but a war lead by me, the Mother Confessor, a woman! War without quarter! - Kahlan Amnell, Mother Confessor

Their conscious, deliberate act of murder takes the irreplaceable value of life from another. A murderer, by his own choice to kill, forfeits the right to his own life.

Safety is only an illusion when evil is on the hunt. I can't stand by and watch. I have to act.

You can never stop all wrongdoing, but if you don't punish it, then it proliferates until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

Mercy is a contingency plan, devised by the guilty in the eventuality that they are caught. Justice is the domain of the just. - Richard Rahl

If you brought harm, no matter the reason, you had to set it right as best you could.

The cannon of the spirits says that intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carryout the intent does not absolve the guilt. ~ Cara Mordsith