Quotes About Justice

I knew that no matter what there would be no mercy to it, no kindness allowed. You couldn't return a kindness after you were dead.

Adevouring thing that would gulp down lives with pleasure and would only pretend to care about law or justice, unless you had some greater power behind you that it couldn't find a way to cheat or break, and that would never, never be satisfied.

Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as as a form of injury to the brain and body, and even as a variant of castration.

And even now, these elite justice advocates celebrated their own virtue, and the shared presumption of their superior morality, without seeming to notice that they had become — in less than a year — exactly what they had spent their adult lives professing most to hate.

Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost.

He had no mother but Mother Jones Crying from a jail window of Trinidad: "All I want is room enough to stand And shake my fist at the enemies of the human race.

I'd live in the fields on hard corn for a just cause. Yes, for a just cause I'd live in the fields On hard corn.

It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights

In 1973, the year of his death, Garrett railed against the constitutional right to vote, complaining how "the vote of the feeble-minded person counts as much as that of an intelligent man.

Kein Mensch bekämpft die Freiheit; er bekämpft höchstens die Freiheit der anderen.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

what sort of technology is this that can send a man to the moon but can't put a piece of bread on every human being's table?" "Perhaps the problem doesn't lie in the technology, but in those who decide how to make use of it," I suggested.

Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

Cuando Martín declaró en el juicio que la única buena costumbre que él defendía era la de leer y que el resto era asunto de cada uno, el juez añadió otros diez años de condena a los no sé cuanto que ya le habían caído.

All the bad things you do in life come back to you, (David). And I've done a lot of bad things. A lot. But I've paid the price. (The Angel's Game)

Az idÅ' mindent meggyógyít, csak épp igazságot nem szolgáltat.

Sólo quiero que se haga justicia. Nada más. En toda mi vida he pensado que lo que quería era venganza. La venganza no existe. Lo única que importa es la verdad.

Nada es justo. A lo máximo que se puede aspirar es a que sea lógico. La justicia es una rara enfermedad en un mundo por lo demás sano como un roble.

denn Applaus hat nur einen Wert, wenn er im gerechten Moment eintrifft. Als welke Spätblume ist er nichts als Beleidigung und Schimpf.

A justiça é uma extravagância da perspectiva, e não um valor universal.

Because without truth there is no justice, and without justice there is no peace.

Los codiciosos nunca saben cuándo ha llegado el momento de dejar de abusar de su posición y fuerzan las cosas hasta sacarlas de quicio. Por eso, tarde o temprano, caen

Niente è giusto. Al massimo si può sperare che sia logico. La giustizia è una malattia rara in un mondo per il resto sano come un pesce.

to show how constructions of manhood and of womanhood can function to subvert the capacity to resist injustice in its many and intersectional forms.