Quotes About Justice

At the risk of seeming ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

I knew that when the great guiding spirit cleaves humanity into two antagonistic halves, I will be with the people.

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Jesus would rather have us do what is right than what is "Christian." Earlier

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skill...we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Hundreds would die, but not the thing they died for.

We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills . . . we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.

Revenge may not always be sweet, but occasionally it hits a sweet spot that empowers the hurt party and allows a couple to put the past behind them. We all have a need for justice. However, it is important to distinguish between retributive justice and restorative justice. The former seeks only punishment; the latter engages in repair.

I've observed an interesting connection between my patients' responses to betrayal and the type of justice they are likely to seek. Some mourn the loss of the connection. "I'm hurt because I lost you." Others mourn the loss of face. "I can't believe you made such an idiot of me." One is a relational injury; the second, a narcissistic one. Wounded hearts; wounded pride.

A knight sets out to illuminate the darkness in society, not from its leaves but from its roots. This is how justice will be realized. Find the source

Justice. There is only one thing for which a knight has no patience: injustice. Every true knight fights for human dignity at all times.

Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners!

For de small stealing dey puts you in jail, soon or late. But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croaks! If dey's one thing I learned in ten years, listenin' to de white quality on de Pullman cars, it's dat same fact. And when I gets a chance to use it -- from stowaway to Emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!

For in other ways a woman is full of fear, defenseless, dreads the sight of cold steel; but, when once she is wronged in the matter of love, no other soul can hold so many thoughts of blood.

Marshall made his decision, now let him enforce it.

The great can protect themselves, but the poor and humble require the arm and shield of the law.

If I have played the Judas, who has been my Christ that I have played the Judas with? Was it Thad Stevens? Was it Wendell Phillips? Was it Charles Sumner? These are the men that stop and compare themselves with the Savior; and everybody that differs with them in opinion, and to try to stay and arrest their diabolical and nefarious policy, is to be denounced as a Judas.

There may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen

And the truth is, there may come a time when even the most peaceful man alive has to fight or else something truly evil will happen.

The hungry can't eat your tears. The poor can't spend them. They're no comfort to the afflicted and they don't bring the wicked to justice. Everything useful that can be done in the world can be done in joy.

There is something that lessens the horror of a crime when one sees the criminal—who has been depicted as a monster—is just like any other man.

We all want the same thing, I guess. Killers or no, good or bad. We all want to be free. We all want to go home.