Quotes About Justice

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments.

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

Art is no crime. It's every artist's responsibility to make art that is meaningful

My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.

Martial arts is not for hurting people, it's for protecting people.

This is what has to be remembered about the law: Beneath that cold, harsh, impersonal exterior there beats a cold, harsh, impersonal heart.

It is the business of a general to be quiet and thus ensure secrecy; upright and just, and thus maintain order.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts.

The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.

The art of governing consists simply of being honest, exercising common sense, following principle, and doing what is right and just.

art is not advocacy and advocacy is not art.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

Art needs to stand for something.