Quotes About Justice

A partisan of equality who is not envious can only be so because he is stupid.

Wij moeten leren om partijdig te zijn zonder onrechtvaardig te zijn.

Equality of opportunity" does not mean the possibility for all to be decent, but the right of all not to be decent.

As they cannot be defined univocally, nor irrefutably demonstrated, so-called "human rights" serve as a pretext for the individual who rebels against a positive law. The individual has no more rights than the benefit that can be inferred from another's duty.

Wird einem Demokraten ein Finger brandig, fällt ihm nur eines ein: Ein Gesetz zu fordern, das das Abschneiden aller Hände anordnet.

Die Tyrannei eines Individuums ist dem Despotismus des Gesetzes vorzuziehen, denn der Tyrann ist verwundbar und das Gesetz unkörperlich.

Natural inequalities would make the democrat's life bitter, if slander did not exist.

The democratic historian teaches that the democrat kills only because his victims force him to do so.

The longer nature delays in avenging the offenses committed against her, the crueler her vengeance.

Someone who has been defeated should not console himself with the possible retaliations of history, but with the patent excellence of his cause.

Die Götter strafen, indem sie die Dinge ihrer Bedeutung berauben.

A revolutionary discovers the "true spirit of the revolution" only when he stands in front of a revolutionary tribunal sentencing him to death.

Every rebellion against the order of man is noble, so long as it does not disguise rebelliousness against the order of the world.

A paean to justice intoxicates us, because it seems to us to be an apology for the passion, just or unjust, which blinds us.

What concerns the Christ of the Gospels is not the economic situation of the poor man, but the moral condition of the rich man.

In a perfect penal code, vulgarity would be punished with the death penalty.

Now two punctilious envoys, Thine and Mine, Embroil the earth about a fancied line; And, dwelling much on right and much on wrong, Prove how the right is chiefly with the strong.

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.

La gloire ne peut apporter de joie à qui l'a volée: elle ne fait palpiter que les cœurs dignes d'elle.

I understand that people might be poor if they don't have any work, but I don't accept that someone is poor if they've worked really hard.

I want to wage war against illiteracy, poverty, unemployment, unfair competition, communitarianism, delinquency.

Vengeance is a lazy form of grief.

If there were any justice," said Shale, "one ought to be allowed to use ardent militarists for experiments in peacetime, if one uses pacifists in war. But I suppose they wouldn't volunteer.

Are you discriminating me?!