Quotes About Justice

Arthur said: "A superman has asked a subhuman to do something which is superhuman. If you had forgiven him, you would never have forgiven yourself all your life.

La restitución moral es más fuerte que la restitución material

No hay libertad sin justicia

Justicia, no venganza

To forgive without justice is a self-satisfying weakness. Justice without love is simulation of strength.

Legislators, priests, philosophers, writers, ans scientists have striven to show that the subordinate position of woman is willed in heaven and advantageous on earth.

Législateurs, prêtres, philosophes, écrivains, savants se sont acharnés à démontrer que la condition subordonnée de la femme était voulue dans le ciel et profitable à la terre.

It must be said in addition that the men with the most scrupulous respect for embryonic life are also those who are most zealous when it comes to condemning adults to death in war.

When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.

at the end of the last century, the police discovered two little girls of twelve or thirteen in a bordello; a trial was held where they testified; they spoke of their clients, who were important gentlemen; one of them opened her mouth to give a name. The judge abruptly stopped her: Do not sully the name of an honest man!

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men do not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Une éthique véritablement socialiste, c'est-à-dire qui cherche la justice sans supprimer la liberté, qui impose aux individus des charges mais sans abolir l'individualité, se trouvera fort embarrassée par les problèmes que pose la condition de la femme.

Vengeance is pointless, but certain men did not have a place in the world we sought to construct

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.

No veía ninguna razón para reconocerle a mi compañero derechos que él no me concedía.

when an individual or a group of individuals is kept in a situation of inferiority, the 'fact' is that he or they 'are' inferior.

The man most sympathetic to women never knows her concrete situation fully. So there is no good reason to believe men when they try to defend privileges whose scope they cannot even fathom.

The means, it is said, will be justified by the end; but it is the means which define it, and if it is contradicted at the moment that it is set up, the whole enterprise sinks into absurdity.

On ne peut pas mener une vie correcte dans une société qui ne l'est pas?

Gerechtigkeit kann innerhalb der Ungerechtigkeit nie geschaffen werden.

To 'remake woman', society would have had to have already made her really man's equal.

Dios mío! ¡Haz que existas! Haz que haya un cielo y un infierno me pasearé por los senderos del paraíso con mi hijo y con mi hija querida y ellos se retorcerán en las llamas de la envidia los miraré tostarse y gemir reiré y los niños reirán conmigo. Me debes esa revancha Dios mío. Exijo que me la des.

O homem é livre; mas ele encontra a lei na sua própria liberdade.

That is why Saint-Just, who believed in the individual and who knew that all authority is violence, said with somber lucidity, "No one governs innocently.