Quotes About Justice

I ain't gonna be no escape-goat!

Once, when a government agent arrived at her home with a ream of paper that documented the case against her, she asked if that law was more powerful than natural law. He told her that, yes, it was a powerful law, the law of the federal government. Then, she said, it should be more powerful that this, and she threw it into her woodstove.

She said she wanted to help little girls, mothers, prostitutes. he said this was a good idea because at present almost all who worked with these people had different sexual organs from their patients.

What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity.

Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.

Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.

I believe that Gandhi's views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil.

Always do what's right; this will gratify some and astonish the rest

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order —in short, of government.

All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.

Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.

The world won't be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.

I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves.

Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions.

ACADEMIC CHAIRS ARE MANY, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Nella vita quotidiana sono il classico solitario, ma la consapevolezza di appartenere alla comunità invisibile di quelli che lottano per la verità, per la bellezza e per la giustizia mi ha risparmiato ogni sensazione di isolamento