Quotes About Justice

As far as I am concerned, war itself is immoral.

The true path to peace is shared development. If we do not want war to go global, justice must go global

In the gates of Heaven, the war medals are nothing but the evidences of murder!

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that.

I am ready to face the International Criminal Court of Justice at the Hague for prosecution over roles played by me when the war ended

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

I would rather have the United States as the world's policeman than the Soviet Union as the world's jailer.

When you stop a dictator, there are always risks. But there are greater risks in not stopping a dictator.

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

Nonviolence is absolute commitment to the way of love. Love is not emotional bash; it is not empty sentimentalism. It is the active outpouring of one's whole being into the being of another.

The more laws, the less justice.

Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Sometimes you have to pick the gun up to put the Gun down.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

A small-state world would not only solve the problems of social brutality and war; it would solve the problems of oppression and tyranny. It would solve all problems arising from power.

No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

It is not permissible for a Muslim to buy products of the countries that are in a state of war with Islam and Muslims, for example, Israel.

I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.

Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence.

As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.