Quotes About Justice

Now, should we treat women as independent agents, responsible for themselves? Of course. But being responsible has nothing to do with being raped. Women don't get raped because they were drinking or took drugs. Women do not get raped because they weren't careful enough. Women get raped because someone raped them.

After all, a right that can't be exercised is not very useful to anyone.

Still, somehow, inexplicably, "man-hater" is a word tossed around with insouciance as if this was a real thing that did harm. Meanwhile we have no word for men who kill women. Is the word just "men"?

What is crazy about killing a woman in a culture that tells you that women's lives are worth nothing?

the concept of the halakhah31 that man must act not only according to general principles of justice, truth, and love, but that every act of life be "sanctified," becoming imbued with a religious spirit. "Right action" refers to everything: to the prayer in the morning, to the benediction over food, to the sight of the ocean and of the first flower of the season, to helping the poor, to visiting the sick, to not making a man ashamed in the presence of others.

Todos son completamente libres, siempre que no interfieran con los derechos legítimos de los demás.

The question of who claimed defense rightly is usually decided by the victors, and sometimes only much later by more objective historians.

This holds true for the whole of a doctrine or of a theoretical system as well as for a single concept, like love, justice, equality, sacrifice. Each such concept and each doctrine has an emotional matrix and this matrix is rooted in the character structure of the individual.

Ich warte auf den Sieg der Anständigkeit, dann könnte ich mich zur Verfügung stellen.

Stellen Sie sich das vor. Die Menschen sind verzweifelt, weil der Boden zu viel trägt! Zu viel Getreide, und andere haben nichts zu fressen! Wenn in so eine Welt kein Blitz fährt, dann können sich die historischen Witterungsverhältnisse begraben lassen.

Das Proletariat ist ein Interessenverband. [...] Dass ihr euer Recht wollt, ist eure Pflicht. Und ich bin euer Freund, denn wir haben denselben Feind, weil ich die Gerechtigkeit liebe. Ich bin euer Freund, obwohl ihr darauf pfeift. Aber, mein Herr, auch wenn Sie an die Macht kommen, werden die Ideale der Menschheit im Verborgenen sitzen und weiterweinen. Man ist noch nicht gut und klug, bloß weil man arm ist.

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day. - All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 3

Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay and the war would be over and done in a day.

Those who consider themselves fair, are particularly ruthless.

Amžina žmonijos scena: prievartos tarnai, j? auka, o greta - visada ir visais laikais - tre?ias, ži?rovas, kuris nepakelia rankos apginti auk? ir nebando jos išvaduoti, nes bijosi d?l sav?s. Ir kaip tik d?l to jam nuolatos gresia pavojus.

Er erkannte die Hoffnungslosigkeit, zu der Gerechtigkeit und Mitgefühl ewig verurteilt waren: immer wieder an Selbstsucht, Gleichgültigkeit und Angst zu stranden.

Kättemaksuga üksi saab vähe korda saata. Kättemaks kuulub teise, süngema osa juurde, mis korda tuleb saata, kuid mis tuleb pärast seda?

Vahi ja vaata! Nad ehitavad relvatehaseid, sest nad tahavad rahu; nad ehitavad koonduslaagreid, sest nad armastavad tõde; õiglus on iga erakondliku hulluse kattevari, poliitilised gangsterid on lunastajad, ning vabadus on igasuguse võimuahnuse lipukiri.

Ja pils?tu bombard?jam m?s, tad t? ir strat??iska nepieciešam?ba; ja to dara citi, tad ne??l?ga noziedz?ba.

That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting. The subject

Ko ?e kazniti Boga zato što ?ini te patimo? Ovde kod ljudi, kad se to u?ini, do?e se u tamnicu ili bude obešen. Ko ?e obesiti Boga?

Surm ei ole Å¡ovinist.

Was werden unsere Väter tun, wenn wir einmal aufstehen und vor sie hintreten und Rechenschaft fordern?

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting. The