Quotes About Justice

In war personal revenge maintains its silence.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war as you can in one protecting your own home.

A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are defending the poor and the rich.

There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.

I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be. I am against the war and I am very vocal about it.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

To me, to say that war isn't evil is to say that nothing is evil.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

There is such a thing as legitimate warfare: war has its laws; there are things which may fairly be done, and things which may not be done.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.

Tony Blair is a war criminal.

All that is good in Heaven and on Earth is born of love. This war is not just. This war is not good. Love is the only thing worth fighting for.

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.