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Quotes About Justice

Vice foments war; it is virtue which actually fights. If there were no virtue, we would live in peace forever.
~ Luc de Clapiers
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
~ Walter Lippmann
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
War knows no law except that of might.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I believe all war to be wholly wrong.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nonviolence requires more courage than the soldier of war.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
When war is raging the laws are dumb.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
War makes its own morals.
~ Margaret Bourke-White
Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.
~ Margaret Mead
Setting aside human rights and international law to have an agenda of war and killing and occupation to me is totally unacceptable.
~ Mairead Corrigan
Before it is too late, we must narrow the gaping chasm between our proclomations of peace and our lowly deeds which precipitate and perpetuate war.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.
~ William James
The holiest war is the one which is fought against the war industry!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
All war aims for impunity.
~ Michael Ignatieff
The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.
~ Michael Ignatieff
We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.
~ Muhammad Ali
Saddam is a war criminal and there are no two people who can argue over this.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
My son was killed in a war without honor for the sake of lies.
~ Nadia McCaffrey
I think that war is diplomacy. There have been wars that have been fought for righteous reasons and there are wars that have had to be fought. Indeed, there will continue to be.
~ Stephen Lang
I've called David Cameron worse things than joker....and a former Prime Minister Tony Blair is widely referred to as a war criminal.
~ Tariq Ali
The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.
~ Thomas Paine
. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and abondoned efforts to treat alcoholics simply by locking them up.
~ Tom McCall
I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.
~ Walter Isaacson