Quotes About Justice

Gandhi called his overall method of nonviolent action Satyagraha. This translates roughly as "Truth-force.

Of course, noncooperation and civil disobedience overlapped. Noncooperation too was to be carried out in a "civil" manner. Here too, Gandhi's followers had to cheerfully face beating, imprisonment, confiscation of their property—and it was hoped that this willing suffering would cause a "change of heart.

Devrimler, seçkinlere kar?? kendili?inden isyanlardan daha fazlas?na ihtiyaç duyar. Devrimler, sadece yöneticinin veya birkaç yasan?n de?i?mesiyle yetinmeyen, ama a?a??dan yukar?ya toplumun her yönünü kavrayan yeni bir etik sistem getirmeye çal??an bir toplumsal kesimin varl???n? gerektirir.

What I have never been able to tolerate is the prospect that my few years on earth will be frittered away filling out the form to verify that I filled out the previous form, or worse, toiling in the service of some enterprise that perpetuates the things I hate: war, corporate bullying, bureaucratic hoop-jumping, plunder of nature, and more hours tethered to electronic screens. I was willing to work, but I wanted my work to matter—to repair land and cities, to cultivate peace and justice.

The greatest conspiracy on the planet is that we need to oppress, kill, and pollute in order to get our needs met

This is a nation that professes to be a Christian nation," [Suelo] tells me, surveying his temporary kingdom. "And yet it's basically illegal to live according to the teachings of Jesus.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also prison.

To the end of homicidal dictators with weird black bangs and puny square mustaches!" The

But most people are essentially good. You have to believe that." "Even the Nazis?" Father Re hesitated, and then said, "I can't explain the Nazis. I don't think the Nazis can explain the Nazis.

Vengeance," Pino said calmly, feeling weirdly out of his body. "Italians believe in it, mon général. Italians believe bloodshed is good for the wounded soul.

To the end of homicidal dictators with weird black bangs and puny square mustaches!

Working a man to death is the same as shooting a man to death," the priest said. "Just a different choice of weapons.

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

Heaven goes by favour. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are right.

The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

Japan has a low crime rate, unless you count the fact that approximately every fifteen minutes the entire Cabinet gets indicted for taking bribes.

Guess what, Martin Luther King? I had a dream, too.

So, Americans, then. Self-appointed vigilante defenders of the world, kind of like Superman, if Superman was retarded and only fought crime when he felt like it.

It's funny that they've called homosexuality a crime... At this rate, everyone will be a criminal.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.