Quotes About Justice

La historia era increíble, en efecto, pero se impuso a todos, porque sustancialmente era cierta. Verdadero era el tono de Emma Zunz, verdadero el pudor, verdadero el odio. Verdadero también era el ultraje que había padecido; sólo eran falsas las circunstancias, la hora y uno o dos nombres propios.

Ireneo empezó por enumerar, en latín y español, los casos de memoria prodigiosa registrados por la Naturalis historia: Ciro, rey de los persas, que sabía llamar por su nombre a todos los soldados de sus ejércitos; Mitrídates Eupator, que administraba la justicia en los veintidós idiomas de su imperio; Simónides, inventor de la mnemotecnia; Metrodoro, que profesaba el arte de repetir con fidelidad lo escuchado una sola vez.

O que um homem faz é como se todos os homens o fizessem. Por isso não é injusto que uma desobediência num jardim contamine a todos; por isso não é injusto que a crucificação de um único judeu baste para salvar todo o gênero humano.

Cumplida su tarea de justiciero, ahora era nadie. Mejor dicho era el otro: no tenía destino sobre la tierra y había matado a un hombre.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life.

Me abochornaba ese hombre con miedo, como si yo fuera el cobarde, no Vincent Moon. Lo que hace un hombre es como si lo hicieran todos los hombres. Por eso no es injusto que una desobediencia en un jardín contamine al género humano; por eso no es injusto que la crucifixión de un solo judío baste para salvarlo. Acaso Schopenhauer tiene razón: yo soy los otros, cualquier hombre es todos los hombres, Shakespeare es de algún modo el miserable John Vincent Moon.

Yes, Latinos dream more. When you live in poverty, when your president is imposed upon you, when they kill someone and no one gets indicted, and when only a few get rich, of course you dream more. It's no coincidence that magic realism happens in Latin America, because for us dreams and aspirations are part of life.

LAS TRES LECCIONES DE DESMOND TUTU La primera lección es fundamental: saber que vas a ganar. Tutu está convencido de que la injusticia no puede ser algo permanente. Esta convicción de que la justicia se puede alcanzar permitió a Mandela sobrevivir durante veintisiete años en la cárcel

To be just meaans to recognize the other as other; it means to give acknowledgment even where one cannot love... A just man is just, therefore, because he sanctions another person in his very separateness and helps him to receive his due.

The brave man uses wrath for his own act, above all in attack, 'for it is peculiar to wrath to pounce upon evil. Thus fortitude and wrath work directly upon each other.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise.

Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visable in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker.

The Constitution doesn't mention rain.

Never has been a LONG hortatory poem', Pound advised John Hargrave, the leader of the Green Shirts, a militant wing of Social Credit: 'Epic…is not incitement to IMMEDIATE act/ you tell the tale to direct the auditor toward admiration of certain nobilities, courage etc.' Or, putting it another way, this time to Basil Bunting as a fellow poet, 'The poet's job is to define and yet again define till the detail of surface is in accord with the root in justice.

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

Vengeance is not justice." The man's voice was grim. "It is in my book." ~ The Perfect Kill

Danger was a part of questing. Perhaps some quests were dull and safe affairs. Go to the store. Pick up some eggs. Return henceforth with said eggs and thou shalt be rewarded with the sacred omelet of justice. Nobody wrote legends about that type of quest.

No man was worth dying over. But she was beginning to think some just might be worth killing over.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Justice is never given it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

Derringer, who invented the gun that killed Lincoln, made as much money in lawsuits as he did selling guns.

Madame la Guillotine is the younger sister, the ideological sibling of the 2nd Amendment; both were conceived of a need to purge overbearing governments.

Nowhere in the Bill of Rights are the words unless inconvenient to be found.

Of the tens of thousands of words spoken during the Nuremberg Nazi trial, the word eugenics was said only once.