Quotes About Justice

I am adding the next chapters to my manual of disobedience.

El que detenta el poder siempre está obligado a ser el más generoso. •José Ignacio Barraza, de la Facultad de Leyes de la UNAM

I have always believed that I should have had no difficulty in causing my rights to be respected.

I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.

Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.

What even differentiated a great and honorable war, where you were trying to secure some land by murdering people, from a shameful genocide, where you were trying to secure some land by murdering people?)

There are two ways to die here,' the fighter concluded. 'You can die doing the right thing for the wrong reason, or die doing the wrong thing for the right reason.

Death to all betrayers!

You have to bear in mind the punishment. If an inmate ran away they would kill fifty other inmates. How can you accept that responsibility?

Throughout the world, the more wrong a man does, the more indignant is he at wrong done to him. 

Did you ever know a poor man made better by law or a lawyer!' said Bunce bitterly.

Pity . . . is more properly bestowed in cases of involuntary suffering than of crime and offences committed voluntarily and with malice aforethought.

By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

Justice, contrary to public belief, is not blind. Love is blind, but Justice? Look at any statue, at any depiction. She is blindfolded.

Capital punishment kills immediately, whereas lifetime imprisonment does so slowly. Which executioner is more humane? The one who kills you in a few minutes, or the one who wrests your life from you in the course of many years?

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!