Quotes About Justice

No habría ningún tipo de guerras si los soldados matasen únicamente a quienes les han hecho una ofensa personal, Pelida. —

No man is worth more than another, wherever they he is from

Nuestros muertos acuden en pos de su venganza sin considerar la presencia de testigos.

Si chaque soldat ne tuait que les ennemis qui l'ont personnellement offensé, Pelides, il n'y aurait aucune guerre

I see nothing but a cuckolded husband and Agamemnon's greed.

There is no law that says the gods must be fair.

Aucune loi n'oblige les dieux à être justes, Achille, reprit Chiron. Et après tout, peut-être que l'ultime chagrin consiste à se retrouver seul sur terre une fois que l'autre est parti.

the Erinyes, our hissing spirits of vengeance, were not always particular.

They might permit a king to burn their fields or rape their daughters, as long as payment was made. But you did not touch a man's sons.

They would return Helen, or we would get to fight for her properly, in the field.

There is no law that gods must be fair,

Nonviolence doesn't always work - but violence never does.

I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.

I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. Gods going to have his revenge.

It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology.

I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither toward justice nor away from it.

I do not know the reason for this blue pussy, meant to convey both divine bewilderment and revelation. But I do feel that its color is right. For blue has no mind. It is not wise, nor does it promise any wisdom. It is beautiful, and despite what the poets and philosophers and theologians have said, I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither towards justice nor away from it. It is pharmakon. It radiates.

Freedom} is certainly not the right to own the economic, social, political, or cultural capital in order to dominate others and trade their happiness in a monopolistic market. Freedom is the process by which you develop a practice for being unavailable for servitude. -Avery F Gordon paraphrasing Toni Cade Bambara p.42

For blue has no mind. It is not wise, nor does it promise any wisdom. It is beautiful, and despite what the poets and philosophers and theologians have said, I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither towards justice nor away from it. It is pharmakon. It radiates.

couldn't have my happiness made out of a wrong—an unfairness—to somebody else . . . What sort of a life could we build on such foundations? —EDITH WHARTON

I couldn't have my happiness made out of a wrong—an unfairness—to somebody else . . . What sort of a life could we build on such foundations? —EDITH WHARTON

People shouldn't have to earn kindness. They should have to earn cruelty.