Quotes About Justice

Victors do not investigate their own crimes, so that little is known about them...

To speak truth to power is not a particularly honorable vocation.

Occupy is the first major public response to thirty years of class war

I don't think we're smart enough to design, in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like. I think we can give some guidelines and more significant, we can ask how we can progress in that direction.

The powerful are self-immunized from even inquiry, let alone punishment for their crimes.

Aristotle was right—the way to overcome the paradox of democracy is by reducing inequality, not reducing democracy.

Freedom without opportunity is a devil's gift.

Il existe deux ensembles de principes. Les principes de pouvoir et de privilège et les principes de vérité et de justice. Si vous courez après le pouvoir et les privilèges, ce sera toujours au détriment de la vérité et de la justice.

El poder es siempre ilegítimo, hasta que demuestre lo contrario.

Candor is entirely in order: only the most devilish anti-American, after all, could question our right to act as suits our fancy. If, say, we choose to invade some defenseless country to capture one of our agents who no longer follows orders, and then try him for crimes committed while on our payroll, who could question the majesty of our system of justice? True, the UN did, but our veto took care of that childish tantrum.

Aggression is "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.

no form of politics is worth our time until it helps struggling people get what they need, sustainably and reliably. All the better if you can do so without patriarchy and fundamentalism.

La libertad, cuando no hay oportunidades, es un regalo envenenado; y negarse a proporcionar estas oportunidades es un acto criminal.

I started with reading Chomsky and slowly became very interested in anything that had to do with Israel/Palestine. Reading Edward Said, Mahmoud Darwish, Ghassan Kanafani, John Berger, Tanya Reinhart, Ilan Pappé, Norman Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein . . . all became part of my daily routine.

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but unless Western populations can rise to the level of Egyptians they're going to remain victims.

The civilization and justice of bourgeois order comes out in its lurid light whenever the slaves and drudges of that order rise against their masters.

Contrary to the eloquent pronouncements, it is not the case that "terrorism is terrorism. There's no two ways about it." There definitely are two ways about it: theirs versus ours. And not just when it comes to terrorism.

THERE'S ALWAYS A CLASS WAR GOING ON

crime of war" is a criminal activity of which the defeated enemies, but not the victors, are guilty.

An enemy combatant can be anyone that the US chooses to attack, with no credible evidence, as Washington concedes.

NC: You're right, but I think it tells you something very interesting about Western culture. When they went to the concentration camps and were appalled, they did not say, "Let's save the survivors"; they said, "Let someone else pay for saving the survivors." IP: Exactly.

Oggi come ieri, non c'è motivo di pensare che siamo governati da leggi misteriose e sconosciute, anziché da semplici decisioni prese all'interno di istituzioni che sono soggette alla volontà umana, istituzioni umane, che devono dimostrare la propria legittimità e se non superano l'esame possono essere sostituite da altre più libere e più giuste, com'è accaduto spesso in passato.

though of course the weak would have to be insane to implement their rights