Quotes About Justice

Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.

The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

To make certain that crime does not pay, the government should take it over and try to run it.

We are the folk song army, every one of us cares. We all hate poverty, war, and injustice unlike the rest of you squares.

As a matter of fact, as a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.

Israel is run by war criminals...

There are laws for peace as well as war.

There seems to be a strong possibility that international humanitarian law has been violated, in a manner that could amount to war crimes.

We can't allow any war for imperialism or greed to be fought in our names. This is what we need to keep fighting for.

To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why?

The war against terrorism is one we must win.

Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war.

History shows that wars are divided into two kinds-just and unjust. All wars that are progressive are just, and all wars that impede progress are unjust.

This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled "enemy?

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

Sir! Men who desert their comrades in war deserve to be shot! And Officers who intrude for them deserve to be hung!

And so I'm saying that, yes, colonialism was terrible, and I describe it as a legacy of wars, but we ought to be moving away from that by now.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.