Quotes About Justice

It's easier to robe the poor.

Gain cannot be made without loss to someone else.

humanity generally gets the Gods it deserves.

Because that's what privilege is-the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person.

fairness and gender rarely intersected.

that's what privilege is—the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person.

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.

Estar por los animales no es estar contra la humanidad. Exigirr que otros traten a los animales con justicia (...) no es pedir nada más o nada menos que lo que se pide en el caso de cualquier humano a quien se le debe un trato justo.

I'm going to heaven! I replied. -What do you mean, you're going to heaven? -Let me pass. -And what will you do in heaven, my poor child? -I'm going there to kill God, who killed Daddy.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws.

Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

If you're honest, you sooner or later have to confront your values. Then you're forced to separate what is right from what is merely legal. This puts you metaphysically on the run. America is full of metaphysical outlaws. ? Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker

Street Crime is the only logical response to America's drug policy just as terrorism is the only logical response to America's foreign policy

Outlaws are not members of society. However, they may be important to society.

The law is designed to help us live. It has no other justification. If it cannot do that, if it operates only theoretically, the law will fail us." Senator Stevens stares

Morality makes no difference legally.

getting away with murder must be quite easy provided that one's motive is sufficiently inscrutable.

Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater.

Croom He insists on it, and finds the proof of his wife's virtue in his eagerness to defend it.

If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

Don't let anybody, anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.

People who die bad don't stay in the ground.