Quotes About Justice

In my own view, the life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States is one of the really great moral crises that we face.

The people of this state won't back down from a challenge. Not in the fight for civil rights, not in defending our nation's freedoms, not in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters.

You must become an activist if you are going to live the natural life.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

a state system of propaganda unplugged from daily reality, give to all totalitarian systems a dreamlike quality. Reality is monstrous. But the portrayal of reality in the state-controlled press and popular entertainment is harmonious and pleasant. Justice, in the narratives approved for public consumption, is always served. Goodness always triumphs. Goals are always attained.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky said that the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

Those who resist are relentlessly self-critical. They ask the hard questions that mass culture, which promises an unachievable eternal youth, fame and financial success, deflects us from asking. What does it mean to be born? What does it mean to live? What does it mean to die? How do we live a life of meaning? What is justice? What is truth? What is beauty? What does our past say about our present? How do we defy radical evil?

The most ominous danger we face comes from the marginalization and destruction of institutions, including the courts, academia, legislative bodies, cultural organizations, and the press, that once ensured that civil discourse was rooted in reality and fact, helping us distinguish lies from truth, and facilitate justice.

My poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of happiness—when these things can be said," wrote Paine, "then may that country boast of its constitution and its government."30

We cannot pick and choose whom among the oppressed it is convenient to support. We must stand with all the oppressed or none of the oppressed

What kind of job you aiming to get? The kind where a man gets paid what he's owed.

I'm trying to help you. I never asked for help my whole life. I want what I'm owed.

I never been one to favor laws.

Karma is Tao's response to the sum of your actions.

Si les trente-trois juges constituant le tribunal rabbinique votaient unanimement pour la sentence de mort, il était de règle que l'accusé fût acquitté.

You can't say it's a fair way to determine right or wrong one day, and then say it's unfair the next because you don't like the outcome.

I have no fear of killing those who deserve to die. I do not choose to kill those who do not.

Knights of the Silver Hand

You're helping to bring freedom to the galaxy. So that one day, everywhere, people will be safe to express themselves. To enjoy, without fear. That's what the rebels want, in the end. That's all we want.

I don't want to be part of mass murder

tyranny cannot stand forever. It is an ugly beast that must feed. Eventually, the Empire will devour everything it has, and will turn on its own.

Christie Golden

He talks about human equality, the rights of man, nothing but that. How about the rights of woman, I'd like to scream at him. It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.