Quotes About Justice

You still often hear people say, "Prostitutes reduce the number of rapes," as if males couldn't control themselves, as if they had to unload themselves somewhere. They would have us believe this is a natural -- instinctual -- fact and not the created political belief it is.

the justice of Christ breaks in and fragments the systems of the world, its philosophy, ecclesial structures legal rules–in short, the earthly economies and regimes.

Such return awaits thy passion as thy passion merits.

Where there are laws, innocence need not tremble.

Sometimes blood, for the sake of sparing it, is spilled.

Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.

That's the trouble with a Trueheart House. It doesn't believe in being cautious when it comes to defeating evil.

In a crime there is always a perpetrator and a victim. If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.

If you look the other way, do not get involved, stay neutral, or remain silent, you will always help the perpetrator and never the victim.

Each belt buckle that German soldiers wore had embossed upon it 'Got Mitt Uns' (God Is With Us). Over the door of the courthouse in the Palace of Justice complex in Nuremberg were engraved the Ten Commandments. The group that established those commandments was precisely the group that was deprived of citizenship, human rights, and even life, under the laws promulgated in the name of that very city—the anti-Jewish Nuremberg Laws of 1935.

We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants today is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow.

Crime is a product of social excess.

Por isso dizemos que para nós não há uma moral situada fora da sociedade humana; isso é um engano. Para nós, a moral está subordinada aos interesses da luta de classes do proletariado.

Bourgeois democracy, although a great historical advance in comparison with medievalism, always remains, and under capitalism is bound to remain, restricted, truncated, false and hypocritical, a paradise for the rich and a snare and deception for the exploited, for the poor.

This is so true [...]

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them there is up to me.

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than rewarded for betrayal

To forgive the terrorists is up to god but to send them to him is up to me.

I am asked if I think the war was a just war ... how can I answer? I was a boy born and raised in beautiful Leningrad, a boy who loved his parents and went obediently to school. A boy who was yanked out of that life and dumped in a strange land where life followed different rules.

During any Odyssey follow the theodicy.

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.