Quotes About Justice

I support social market economy. But it only works if there is fair competition.

Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.

I can appreciate that on one side, but we have to remember that the system is designed corruptly, and works against us, so you cant convict those who can benefit from the system, because its not neccesarily their fault.

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

I don't believe that torture works.

We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.

I remember back in the 1960s - late '50s, really - reading a comic book called 'Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Story.' Fourteen pages. It sold for 10 cents. And this little book inspired me to attend non-violence workshops, to study about Gandhi, about Thoreau, to study Martin Luther King, Jr., to study civil disobedience.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing - that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world - is what I wish for all.

The world will not accept dictatorship or domination.

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

Being a good police officer is one of the most difficult, dangerous, idealistic jobs in the world.

One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.

Raise hell - big time. I want y'all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there's a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Something must be done to save humanity! A better world is possible!

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes.

At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.

Wealth does not trickle down to the poor. Oxfam knows this, the IMF knows this, the World Bank knows this. Poor people have always known this.