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Quotes About Justice

We all have to be concerned about terrorism, but you will never end terrorism by terrorizing others.
~ Martin Luther King III
Genocide is not war! It is more dangerous than war!
~ Raphael Lemkin
Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.
~ Maximilien Robespierre
War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain.
~ Rudyard Kipling
War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.
~ Charles Evans Hughes
The death of a single human being is too heavy a price for the vindication of any principle, however sacred.
~ Daniel Berrigan
Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
~ Madame Roland
I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office.
~ Abraham Lincoln
When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.
~ Sun Tzu
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.
~ Howard Zinn
In the name of God and humanity I protest!
~ John Bell Hood
War is a terrible trade. But when the cause is just, the smell of gunpowder is sweet.
~ Myles Standish
He who did well in war just earns the right, To begin doing well in peace.
~ Robert Browning
It is a tragic mix-up when the United States spends 500,000 for every enemy soldier killed, and only 53 annually on the victims of poverty.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!
~ Georg Buchner
Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
~ Ludwig von Mises
We've got to show that blacks and whites are treated equally in the army. Otherwise, what's the point of waging war on Hitler?
~ Josephine Baker
Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.
~ Louis D. Brandeis
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
~ A. J. Muste
War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.
~ Charles Sumner
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
~ Charles Guggenheim
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
~ Ronald Reagan
One makes war to win, not because it's just.
~ Michel Foucault
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
~ Norman Cousins