Quotes About Justice

We the farm workers have the same weapons—our bodies and our courage.

But Moses could be hard too. And God can be hard." "Oh yes. God is good and just. He chastises us as we would chastise a child, for our own good." Ardon listened, but it was clear to Phinehas that he had shut his heart. "One of these days," he said, "you're going to grow up. Until you do, you're just a spoiled boy." Ardon was angry at his friend's words, but he did not argue, for he respected Phinehas, as did everyone.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

we have the idea that there are big sins and little sins. But the book of James tells us that, 'Whosoever shall keep the whole law yet offend in one point, the same is guilty of all.' Do you see what that means? We think that murder is a much worse sin than gossip or telling a lie, but according to God, they are both offenses against His law, and we become offenders whether we commit murder or adultery

Enterramos o machado de guerra a propósito da ditadura do proletariado e da Revolução, mas novos antagonismos surgiram: pena de morte, imigração, prisôes, aborto, droga, eutanásia, energia nuclear, meios de procriação, proteção social, seleção, questões sobre as quais é inútil esperar poder encontrar qualquer unanimidade; nossas sociedades estão entregues ao dilaceramento das perspectivas.

Something like hope begins, as if times can turn, the world change course. Maybe black-hearted boys in love with death won't blow themselves and us to smithereens, guns fall silent, the powerful cease slaughtering the weak, the rich will not gorge as the poor starve. Maybe good men will again come to power, truth speak, and words have meaning again. - New Moon

It's not the wolf that makes the killer, Deputy. It's what lies in the heart of the man." -Ava

Fear makes people lawless. If indifference is hate's opposite, then compassion is fear's.

Humans have long since possessed the tools for crafting a better world. Where love, compassion, altruism and justice have failed, genetic manipulation will not succeed.

American government was founded on a belief and a faith in God and in doing what is right and just.

In any case, if they don't do it to you, they do it to someone else...if you let them do it to others, you become an accomplice, intentionally or not

La experiencia me enseñó que, ciertamente, se puede ganar una guerra con cualquier clase de personas, pero no se puede construir un sistema justo, con valores éticos, si quienes se proponen hacerlo carecen de ellos o sacrifican esos mismos valores en el camino.

In Guerra, in che cosa differivano gli uomini in campo? Che differenza c'era, in fondo, tra due uomini armati di fucile, disposti a uccidersi in difesa di ragioni che entrambi consideravano giuste?

Tanta gente se las ingeniaba para ignorar la miseria, aceptando las desigualdades como ley de vida. Y así habían sido las cosas desde siempre, pensaba. ¿Quién se atrevía a soñar en cambiar todo aquello?

For me, the Revolution sought to end mistreatment, not to democratize it.

there is no head of state in the world today who is not in virtuality a criminal . Those who shoulder the dreary mantle of sovereignty know that their turn may come to be branded a criminal by their colleagues. We certainly will not be the ones to complain. For the sovereign, who freely consented to donning the executioner's clothes, is now finally manifesting his originary kinship with the criminal.

Por lo que tengo que deciros, señoras mías, que a quien te la hace se la hagas; y si no puedes, que no se te vaya de la cabeza hasta que lo consigas, para que lo que el burro da contra la pared lo mismo reciba.

Wrongs committed in the distant past are far easier to condemn than to rectify.

Possiamo sempre fare qualcosa": massima che andrebbe scolpita sullo scranno di ogni magistrato e di ogni poliziotto.

Occorre compiere fino in fondo il proprio dovere, qualunque sia il sacrificio da sopportare, costi quel che costi, perché è in ciò che sta l'essenza della dignità umana.

Ma in ogni caso non è ammissibile sostenere che versare una percentuale sia un atto innocente: implica, nella migliore delle ipotesi, il riconoscimento dell'autorità mafiosa.

La vita è missione ed il dovere è la sua legge suprema».

Soltanto affrontando la mafia per quello che è - un'associazione criminale seria e perfettamente organizzata - saremo in grado di combatterla.

La salvación de la moral y de la sociedad no se obtienen con vanos y costosos procesos contra los culpables, sino con interminables procesos contra los inocentes