Quotes About Justice

Do I consider myself a part of the casino capitalist process? No I don't. I believe in a society where all people do well.

Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

We cannot have a just society that applies the principle of accountability to the powerless and the principle of forgiveness to the powerful. This is the America in which we currently reside.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists.

A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.

As man seeks justice in equality, so society seeks order in anarchy.

I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life.

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men.

Through the centuries, men of law have been persistently concerned with the resolution of disputes in ways that enable society to achieve its goals with a minimum of force and maximum of reason.

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

The more humanity owes the poor man, the more society denies him.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society.

Individual thinkers since the days of Ezekiel and Isaiah have asserted that the despoliation of land is not only inexpedient but wrong. Society, however, has not yet affirmed their belief.

The police become necessary in human society Only at that junction in human society Where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

If you are a minority, it is important that you have legal ways to defend yourself in the society in which you live.

A society will be judged by how it treats its weakest members