Quotes About Justice

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

We should keep [the Panama Canal]. After all, we stole it fair and square.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

A "just war" - if there could be such a thing - would not require conscription. Volunteers would be plentiful.

Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

The most important thing today is to stop US wars.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.

President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.

Peace is more than just absence of war. It is rather a state in which no people of any country, in fact no group of people of any kind live in fear or in need.

The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The war against hunger is truly mankind's war of liberation.

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.