Quotes About Justice

Peace without justice and equal opportunity is no Peace.

You've got to be a warrior," her father told her. "There are certain things you might have to do, for the sake of all black people. And no matter what you do as an individual, you're reflecting your group and your family. So make sure you're correct.

My vengeance is my guilt

A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.

A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

I am prepared for any crime, my sister, / To burn the palace, and into the flaming ruin / Hurl Tereus, the author of all evils. / I would cut out his tongue, his eyes, cut off / The parts which brought you shame...

Ceza kald?r?labilir; ama suç insan?n içinde sonsuza kadar yaÅŸar.

I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls.

Evil will win if good people do nothing.

I just have to do the right thing, and recently I've realized that sometimes the right thing seems crazy to those who don't want change.

I demand to know who did this to my man's face.-Aphrodite Lafonte

No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.

She was at the valiant age when we burn to right wrongs and succour the oppressed

a chap who's supposed to stop chaps pinching things from chaps having a chap come along and pinch something from him.

Which one, darling?' 'The one with a face like a fish.' 'But they all have faces like fish, darling.' The child seemed to see the justice of this objection. He became more definite. 'The ugly one!

Besides, a burglar is only a practical socialist. Philosophers talk a lot about the redistribution of wealth. The burglar goes out and does it.

It is a curious law of Nature that the most undeserving brothers always have the best sisters.

To say that the farmer laughed would be to express the matter feebly. That his young opponent, who had been irritating him unspeakably since the beginning of the game with advice and criticism, should have done exactly what he had cautioned him, the farmer, against a moment before, struck him as being the finest example of poetic justice he had ever heard of, and he signalized his appreciation of the same by nearly dying of apoplexy.

What it all boils down to, if you follow me, is that certain blokes — me, for example — have got much too much of the ready, while certain other blokes — the martyred proletariat, for instance — haven't got enough. This makes it fairly foul for the m.p., if you see what I mean.

Maybe someone will know I didn't weave crowns to draw blood; that I faught against mockery; that I did fill the high tide of my soul with truth. I repaid vileness with doves.

Sólo con una ardiente paciencia conquistaremos la espléndida ciudad que dará luz, justicia y dignidad a todos los hombres. Así la poesía no habrá cantado en vano.

Soy un poeta sin ningún precepto pero digo, sin lástima y sin pena: no hay asesino bueno en mi concepto.

Rise up with me against the organisation of misery.

La obstinación de fray De las Casas para liberar a los indígenas de la cruel dominación de los europeos lo llevó a propugnar su reemplazo por esclavos traídos de África, como si estos no fueran seres humanos, lo que fomentará el tráfico negrero al darle sustento ideológico y religioso.