Quotes About Justice

If any person raises his hand to strike down another on the ground of religion, I shall fight him till the last breath of my life, both as the head of the government and from the outside

I don't know why it's so hard to believe women. You to go Saudi Arabia and you need two women to testify against a man. Here you need 25.

law lives in conduct, not on the printed page; it exists in the interactions of judges, lawyers, and ordinary citizens.

Against the advice of doctors, the governor refuses to allow an incurably ill man to be put out of his misery. This is the other face of capital punishment. One day we shall have to fight for the abolition of the life penalty, as we did in the past for the abolition of the death penalty. Shadows have always preceded us, and they will outlive us. We were dead before we were alive, and we shall be again.

One can imagine a high-definition democracy, in which they would show the human rights chart every day, in real time on the screens, in the way they do now for the weather. They would show the observance and violation of those rights over the whole planet, possibly with immediate penalties (which would obviously produce a constant worsening of the situation).

Do not take the side of those already in the right.

Ma è così sicuro che la corruzione debba essere sradicata?

The proof of how poorly grounded freedom is is that depriving someone of their freedom itself no longer means anything. Impossible to find an equivalence between the crime and the punishment or, therefore, any possible 'justice'. Given the extension of responsibility and its ramification into all networks, the irresponsibility is the same everywhere.

But it's tempting, isn't it, to give somebody like Olympia or Fenleigh a taste of their own medicine? To get even?' I agree it's tempting. *Really* tempting. But it doesn't solve anything. It just perpetuates the problem by making us as bad as them. And we don't need any more of them, do we?

Ce qui me dégoûte dans la guerre, c'est son imbécillité. J'aime la vie. Je n'aime même que la vie. C'est beaucoup, mais je comprends qu'on la sacrifie à une cause juste et belle.

Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.

It is in order not to become victim of an assassin that we consent to die if we become assassins.

I hate victims who respect their executioners

La función del escritor consiste en obrar de modo que nadie pueda ignorar el mundo y que nadie pueda ante el mundo decirse inocente

Homine imperito nunquam quidquam injustius. [There is nothing more unfair than an ignoramus.]

A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child.

La conscience de l'identité entre tous les hommes est au fondement du droit à l'alimentation. Personne ne saurait tolérer la destruction de son semblable par la faim sans mettre en danger sa propre humanité, son identité. (p. 122)

Les lois du marché font que seule la demande solvable est comblée. Elles imposent l'ignorance délibérée du fait que l'alimentation est un droit humain, un droit pour tous. (p. 311)

Entre la raison marchande et le droit à l'alimentation, l'antinomie est absolue. Les spéculateurs jouent avec la vie de millions d'êtres humains. Abolir totalement et immédiatement la spéculation sur les denrées alimentaires constitue une exigence de la raison. (p. 329)

I understand where you're coming from. I know it isn't just a question of revenge. It's the feeling there are some things you can't let pass. If you did, you wouldn't be able to look at yourself in the mirror afterwards.

Right is right, even if you're alone.

There are voices and they must be heard.

I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.

There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness unblocks the future. (p.225)