Quotes About Justice

God does not punish people for being nonpacifists; war alone is punishment enough.

An eye for an eye" won't work because all it does is double the number of eyeless people.

Fue Cuny quien me descubrió, a finales de abril, que un equipo de incógnito de las Fuerzas Especiales estadounidenses y oficiales reservistas con entrenamiento especializado —incluidos un juez federal estadounidense y un abogado del distrito de Filadelfia— habían llevado a cabo la misión de hacer un seguimiento del destino de cientos de palestinos desaparecidos en Kuwait.

Los mismos hombres de los que se sospecha que han cometido crímenes contra la humanidad estaban trabajando con los estadounidenses para dar caza a los culpables de crímenes contra la humanidad. Esta colaboración militar, según declaró el Pentágono, era parte de «la guerra contra el terror».

Once you start fighting in a war, of course, you are immediately complicit in a form of mass murder.

Armin Wegner, un enfermero alemán y alférez en el séquito del mariscal de campo Von der Goltz, desobedeció las órdenes y tomó centenares de fotografías de las víctimas armenias en los campos de Ras al Ain, Rakka, Alepo y Deir ez Zor. Hoy esas desgarradoras fotografías de muertos y moribundos constituyen el núcleo de los testimonios fotográficos.

Equal time is not necessary when dealing with evil. Nazis do not merit equal or fair treatment.

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawer.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make others so.

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.

In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

There is something wrong in a government where they who do the most have the least. There is something wrong when honesty wears a rag, and rascality a robe; when the loving, the tender, eat a crust, while the infamous sit at banquets.

Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

The true civilization is where every man gives to every other every right that he claims for himself.

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments — there are consequences.

And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul -- breaking the mental manacles -- getting the brain out of bondage -- giving courage to thought -- filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

If abuses are destroyed, man must destroy them. If slaves are freed, man must free them. If new truths are discovered, man must discover them. If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenseless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man. The grand victories of the future must be won by man, and by man alone.

Whoever claims any right that he is unwilling to accord to his fellow-men is dishonest and infamous.

Happiness is the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.