Quotes About Justice

As revoluções nascem, não de um acidente, mas da necessidade. Ela existe porque é preciso que ela exista.

Szubienica to waga, która u jednego koÅ"ca ma czÅ'owieka, a u drugiego caÅ'Ä… ziemiÄ™. By? czÅ'owiekiem - piÄ™kna to rzecz.

L'uguaglianza, cittadini, non significa ridurre ogni vegetazione a ad uno stesso livello, una società di giganteschi fili d'erba e querce nane.

La liberazione non è la libertà; si esce dal carcere, ma non dalla condanna.

In tempo di rivoluzione, fate attenzione alla prima testa che cade. Essa fa venire l'appetito al popolo.

Há na nossa civilização horas terríveis; são os momentos em que o direito penal sentencia um naufrágio. Que fúnebre é esse minuto em que a sociedade se distancia e consuma o abandono irreparável de um ser pensante!

The social edifice of the past rests on three columns,—the priest, the king, and the hangman.

La primera igualdad es la equidad

Father, you owe my husband affront for affront." The father asked: "Upon which cheek did you receive the blow?" "Upon the left cheek." The father struck the right cheek, and said: "Now you are satisfied. Go and tell your husband that he has struck my daughter, but that I have struck his wife.

I waited for the moment when he would resume his task of blood. The position was a strange one: he had already tried to kill me and failed, to prove that he was white; and now he was going to murder me to show that he was black.

In October, 1815, he was released; he had entered there in 1796, for having broken a pane of glass and taken a loaf of bread.

for, if liberty is the summit, equality is the base.

To feed the people is a fine goal, massacring them is the wrong way to go about it.

I do not understand how God, the father of men, can torture his children and his grandchildren, and hear them cry without being tortured himself.

In our civilization there are fearful times when the criminal law wrecks a man. How mournful the moment when society draws back and permits the irreparable loss of a sentient being.

Let's fight, ye gods and little fishes! I've had enough of despotism.

Te diré su nombre y el mío: él se llama Crimen y yo Castigo

La galera fa il galeotto.

Mais soyons justes envers l'aristocratie. Elle a fait équilibre à la royauté; elle a été contrepoids. Elle a fait obstacle au despotisme; elle a été barrière. Remercions-la, et enterrons-la.

In literature, death was many things—a message, catharsis, retribution

Think about the women who fought for the vote. They had to be scared, too, but they marched for change, even if it meant going to jail. And now we can vote. Sometimes the end is worth any sacrifice.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.… The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.… The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. —FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

You're always talking about my future. Your big dreams for me. College. How do you think I'm going to get there, Mom? By picking cotton in the fall and starving in the winter? By living on the dole?" Loreda moved forward. "Think about the women who fought for the vote. They had to be scared, too, but they marched for change, even if it meant going to jail. And now we can vote. Sometimes the end is worth any sacrifice.