Quotes About Justice

From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. ... I fell morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot of you!

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

My music is made for the people who are willing to stand up to change this world themselves.

Dear Hip Hop, we can't scream 'murder, misogyny, lawlessness' in our music & then turn around and ask for equality & justice.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Music and the arts feed our souls, but a decent wage puts food on the table. Musicians, fans of music, and grassroots political organizations are a potent force to fight for social justice.

You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.

The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

When man violates man's laws, we send him to jail and point the finger of scorn at him. When he violates nature's laws, we send him to a hospital, give him flowers, and feel sorry for him.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.