Quotes About Justice

They have to pay. Revenge sounds so… Cahill, Amy said. Not revenge, Dan said. Justice.

Sometimes "reality" is used to debunk as childish or unknowledgeable points of view that actually are holding out a more radical possibility of equality or freedom or democracy or justice.... It reminds me of parents who say, "Oh, you're gay..." or "Oh, you're trans—well, of course I accept you, but it's going to be a very hard life." Instead of saying, "This is a new world, and we are going to build it together...

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

For himself Ian would have calmly and unhesitatingly told society to go to hell, but they'd already put Elizabeth through hell, and he wanted somehow to make it right for her again.

They were married by a justice of the peace when Ed got out of the service. The young lawyer, who wasn't that young anymore, threw a party for them in his backyard. Tawny didn't invite Darlene. Didn't even tell Ed her mother was living.

according to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

Friedman described the situation in 1963 in these epigrammatic terms: "to the Negro demand for 'now,' to which the Deep South has replied 'never,' many liberal whites are increasingly responding 'later.

Counterracism was never an option.

difference that is prized but unprivileged,

Not through repression, but through knowledge of the differences within ourselves can we achieve the solidarity with others which, though necessarily partial, is essential for the creation of a more just and free world.

And above all things avoid the intellectual prostitution which is the vice of our times in many trades and most professions. I mean by this the being a mere hired apologist for and defender of immorality, graft, dishonesty, or vice in any form. The intellectual prostitute may rise in the service, but he is a lost soul. Respect yourself; be absolutely just to all;

In reading poetry, we learn to read either in the light of timelessness or in the light of social justice or injustice as experienced by once generation.

It was surprising enough when strangely dressed religious leaders took over the government of such a large country as Iran. But now, these bin Ladenists? The tactics they've used are bloodthirsty, sadistic. They shamelessly show their pleasure when their enemies are killed. They touch their victims, they look at their faces. They film the killings! These are all things that we would never do--well, except on very rare occasions, like the time we killed bin Laden himself.

As the saying goes, I don't want his blood on the rug.

I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of more "life"; I had no right to remain a single hour.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

The terms 'justice' is ambiguous and dangerous, and in its name more harm than good is done to humanity.

The theory of karma is the theory of cause and effect, of action and reaction; it is a natural law, which has nothing to do with the idea of justice or reward and punishment.

Of equality - As if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself - As if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Judging from the main portion of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.