Quotes About Justice

Vengeance, blind and sterile and contemptible.

I struck him down for Deborah, and for all the poor and ignorant women I have seen screaming in the flames, for the women who have expired on the rack or in cold prison cells, for the families destroyed and for the villages laid waste by these awful lies.

The men deserve what will happen to them. As a species, they will reap what they have sown.

God kills, and so shall we...

Acaso no sería mejor el mundo si nunca más se quemara a nadie en el nombre de Dios? —pregunté—. ¿Si no se continuara creyendo que Dios puede ordenar al hombre hacer tal cosa a su semejante? ¿Cuál es el peligro de un mundo racional donde horrores como éste no se produzcan?

Revenge is a lure, a mighty molten lure, even if it is hopeless!

If you come to bring a swift justice to me for my disobedience, assure me please that you will do your utmost to destroy a spirit which has been my companion since I was a child. This creature, a duplicate of me who has grown with me since before I can remember, now poses a danger to humans as well as myself.

Rape is unmanly.

matter that we all die, and do not know where we go when we die, or if a justice or explanation awaits us.

Revenge was a dish best served cold.

The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

Communities that have been devastated by natural or man-made disasters almost never lapse into chaos and disorder; if anything, they become more just, more egalitarian, and more deliberately fair to individuals.

An earthquake achieves what the law promises but does not in practice maintain," one of the survivors wrote. "The equality of all men.

A deep and enduring economic crisis like the Great Depression of the 1930s, or a natural disaster that kills tens of thousands of people, might change America's fundamental calculus about economic justice.

An important part of freedom is not having to make sacrifices for people who don't have to make sacrifices for you.

Like wealth discrepancies, mortality rates provide a rough indication of relative freedom, and when social classes die at radically different rates from one another, some are obviously less free. An important part of freedom is not having to make sacrifices for people who don't have to make sacrifices for you.

Now, she had an innocent client. She hated innocent clients.

8 Better a little with righteousness than great income with injustice. 9 A man's heart plans his way, but the Lorddetermines his steps.

What do you think of God," I asked, "for testing the loyalty of Job?" "I think it is wrong for the strong to test the weak, though it is natural for the weak to test the strong.

Serinity Young

There's no record of Martin Luther King, Jr., or Gandhi whining about credit. Credit isn't the point. Change is.

Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th'world; and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it a right.

I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to. It is as cut-and dried as that. It doesn't matter if you are a woman or not; in this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.