Quotes About Justice

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.(Russian-American Jewish lecturer and activist, 1869-1940)

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

True social harmony grows naturally out of solidarity of interests. In a society where those who always work never have anything, while those who never work enjoy everything, solidarity of interests is non-existent; hence social harmony is but a myth.

The guilt of these homicides lies upon every man and woman who, intentionally or by cold indifference, helps to keep up social conditions that drive human beings to despair.

Referring to the American government, the greatest American Anarchist, David Thoreau, said: Government, what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instance losing its integrity; it has not the vitality and force of a single living man. Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made agents of injustice.

Thus Blackstone is right when he says, Human laws are invalid, because they are contrary to the laws of nature.

I believed in God; but when I saw so great an inequality between men, I acknowledged that it was not God who created man, but man who created God.

I'm on the side of law & order & right - & to my mind they're worth while running any risk for. Evil is strong & powerful, but I'm strong & powerful too, & it's good to try one's strength against bad men & their ways.

We ought to get the RSPCA after them. It's cruel to push dogs through coal-holes and leave them there in the darkness. For all we know they have no food or drink.

It was no time for mercy, it was time to terminate with extreme prejudice.

The thought of revenge always gave her a warm fuzzy feeling.

Some people just needed to be stolen from.

Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment.

Lawyers. Everyone should have one.

Sometimes, Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker would be thrown out a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.

steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich.

Killing the devil cannot be a sin.

The man was an animal. Base and foul. In a just world he would be the prisoner and Conor a free man.

He could be like a modern-day Robin Hood: steal from the rich and give to the poor. Well, maybe just steal from the rich. One step at a time.

Sometimes Spiro missed the times when a troublesome worker was thrown out of a high window and that was the end of him. These days, if you threw someone out of a window, they'd phone their lawyer on the way down.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?

Do not afflict others with anything that you yourself would not wish to suffer. if you would not like to be a slave, make sure no one is your slave. If you have slaves, you yourself are the greatest slave, for just as freedom is incompatible with slavery, so goodness is incompatible with hypocrisy.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no one.