Quotes About Justice

Possibly some of the richest two percent of the world's population have decided to give up on the pretense that "progress" or "development" or "prosperity" can be achieved for all eight billion of the world's people.

history never ends, and good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.

But it isn't working fast enough." He tried to compose himself. "If you took your job seriously, you'd be looking into how to make change happen faster. Some things might be against the law, but in that case the law is wrong. I think the principle was set at Nuremberg—you're wrong to obey orders that are wrong.

So we were shouted at, we were beat on. "What gives you the right to do this! Who do you think you are!" We replied to this in the thousand-voice chorus, at a volume of 115 decibels: "WE ARE THE RULE OF LAW.

It's a life or death thing, society, and I think people mainly do recognize that, and the people who deny it are stupid fuckers, I say this unequivocally. Ignorant fools. That kind of stupidity should be put in jail.

At this point justice and revenge are the same thing! Justice for people would be revenge on the oligarchs.

In China the egalitarian movement came not just from Zhu's vision, but also from the Daoist ideas of balance, as Zhu would always point out. In Travancore it rose out of the Buddhist idea of compassion, in Yingzhou from the Hodenosaunee idea of the equality of all, in Firanja from the idea of justice before God.

One thought ever at the fore-- That in the Divine Ship, the World, breasting Time and Space, All Peoples of the globe together sail, sail the same voyage, are bound to the same destination. I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?

Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise.

No eye for an eye, no matter what. Especially historical justice, or climate justice. But over the long haul, in some rough sense, that's what we have to try for. That's what our ministry is about. We're trying to set things up so that in the future, over the long haul, something like justice will get created. Some long-term ledger of more good than bad. Bending the arc and all that. No matter what happened before, that's what we can do now.

Mother says I have no heart for my own kind. She doesn't know. I have too much. I know what we have done, and what we deserve.

When you deal with naked power from an inferior position, perspectives get distorted. He was the aggrieved party and yet he felt guilty and would continue to do so all his life.

As you sow, so shall you reap has a neat ring to it but you are making a grievous mistake if you put your faith in that kind of cheap sentiment. There are no just deserts. The wages of sin are not necessarily hell and the path of goodness is often lined with treachery for the world is predicated upon the principle of randomness.

Being in the right has got nothing to do with courage or exceptional bravery. The forces of evil will fight just as enthusiastically or fiercely as the armies of righteousness.

A tamo,na nebesima,sedeo je Bog i nije odvajao pogled od mene,pazio je da se moja propast odvija po svim pravilima umetnosti,ravnomerno i polako,ne izlazeci iz ritma.A u ponorima pakla djavoli se ljute sto se toliko dugo opirem da izvrsim neki veliki zlocin,neki neoprostiv greh za koji bi me Gospod u svojoj pravednosti bacio u bezdan...

Han er kanske likeså lykkelig som vi andre, han trænger litt mat, nogen klær og et helgenbillede; men den lille stemmerett i landsbyen er ham kanske ikke det kjæreste i verden...

St. Hans 1948. I dag har Høyesterett dømt, og jeg ender min skrivning.

Those who betray me only do so once. ~Malkom Slaine (Demon From the Dark)

Do you honestly want credit because you didn't do anything to a helpless female?" "No! Yes. No, damn it—

What good is it to be rich if we canna scrape up the scratch to buy a political prisoner on a whim?

Ultimately, the blame for hurting you goes to your ex-fiancé. He didn't appreciate what he had," Dmitri grated. "So yes, I made him my mark, because you deserve a faithful husband. And unlike him, I can keep my eyes on the queen!" Oh.

It wasn't even fair. Which was okay, since Sorceri only cared about fair play when it benefited them. Otherwise, they were not fans.

I will find you," he bit out. "I will find you and make you pay for this a thousand times." The bright one leapt up and caught Myst's forefinger with her own. "Sounds like he's setting up a date," she said as she dangled. "Oooom," Myst purred, her gaze flickering over him. "Dress casual.

There were also rules, he said, that applied to how to treat captured enemies. "You can't use force just to interrogate.