Quotes About Justice

If a whole people is oriented toward the search for justice or purity, if it obeys in depth the primacy of the spiritual, it does not suffer from the lack of material things, just as we today do not feel the inverse need of the spiritual.

It is true that we still talk about "happiness" or "liberty" or "justice," but people no longer have any idea of the content of the phrases, nor of the conditions they require, and these empty phrases are only used in order to take measures which have no relation to these illusions.

Propaganda is necessarily false, when it speaks of values, of truth, of good, of justice, of happiness-and when it interprets and colors facts and imputes meaning to them. It is true when it serves up the plain fact, but does so only for the sake of establishing a pretense and only as an example of the interpretation that it supports with that fact.

We do not need a truth to serve us, we need a truth that we can serve

I do not know if Saul Alinsky knows God. But I assure you that God knows Saul Alinsky.

interviewer - would you have defended adolf hitler? jacques verges - hell, i'd have even defended bush, as long as he pleads guilty!

They say fifty lashes will kill a man. So I'll spare you the last one.

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Tay knew that if he gave the Hong Kong police what he had discovered, they wouldn't have been able to touch Albert Chan. He doubted they would have even tried.

Well, you know what they say: One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.

Once you cease to be a master, once you throw off your master's yoke, you are no longer human rubbish, you are a human being, and all the things that adds up to. So, too, with the slaves. Once they are no longer slaves, once they are free, they are no longer noble and exalted; they are just human beings.

Do you see the queer thing about people like me? Sometimes we hold your retribution.

When I say "I am filled with rage," the criminal says, "But why?"And when I blow things up and make life generally unlivable for the criminal (is my life not unlivable too?) the criminal is shocked, surprised. But nothing can erase my rage- not an apology, not a sum of money, not the death of the criminal- for this wrong can never be made right, and only the impossible can make me still: can a way be found to make what happened not have happened?

Considering that no man is an Island, and no man is above the Law. Then, breaking the law is a penalty all citizen should endure."

Unless we rise up against the dark side of evil, The Crown and The Spoon will not survive.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

We should do nothing for revenge, but everything for security: nothing for the past; everything for the present and the future.

Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice.

I have betrayed no confidence and no trust. I simply wrote a letter in which I stated the truth--for the Government or anybody else.' 'A letter in which you accuse the Government...' 'Of course I accuse. If the Government uses falsehoods and the blind eye to conduct its affairs, then shouldn't I accuse? If I am betraying a trust to reveal it, then I am still right and you cannot make me wrong.

May we be strong by doing what is right