Quotes About Justice

You can't get around what's right, though, he said. When we stop loving them, that's when they win.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.

We were Negroes and our concern was the white man and how to get along with him; how to hold our own and raise ourselves in his esteem without for one moment letting him think he had any God-given rights that we did not also have.

If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

We must return to them their lawful rights, assure equality of justice - and then everybody leave everybody else to hell alone. Paternalistic - we show our prejudice in our paternalism - we downgrade their dignity.

There is no justice without truth. P.D. East

There are thousands of kinds of injustice but there is only one kind of justice - equal justice for all. To call for a little more justice, or a moderately gradual sort of justice, is to call for no justice. That is a simple truth.

It's because even a good man can't always be right, that we need ... rules.

He wished he could arrange a maiming as a kind of moral lesson

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

Ciocia Marta (....) w obronie demokracji potrafi?a sta? si? tyranem.

But I had to keep my hands under the desk—my fists under the desk, I should say. The White House, that whole criminal mob, those arrogant goons who see themselves as justified to operate above the law—they disgrace democracy by claiming that what they do they do for democracy! They should be in jail. They should be in Hollywood! I know that some of the girls have told their parents that I deliver "ranting lectures" to them about the United States; some

I know what's fair, Helen said. I also know what's human

every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance toward the innocent

every study of the gods, of everyone's gods, is a revelation of vengeance toward the innocent.

But in her first days with us, Susie was a bear on the rape issue—and on a lot of other issues, too.

Force is the only real and unanswerable power. Oftentimes, beings who haven't been duly punished cannot be reasoned with or edified.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

emancipation

I'm not sure it's altogether right to encourage and reward fighting and killing, but that's the way things are.

I recommend Batman especially, for he tends to transcend the abysmal society in which he's found himself. His morality is rather rigid, also. I rather respect Batman.

In my private apocalypse he will be impaled upon his own nightstick.