Quotes About Justice

Y es que la pregunta es: ¿qué modo sensato y real puede haber de resarcir una injusticia mediante una venganza punitiva? El dolor y la degradación del opresor no traerá libertad al afligido. Solo un esfuerzo inteligente e imaginativo en pos de la justicia puede lograr algo así.

La política de la envidia a veces se limita sinceramente a la idea de que "queremos lo que ellos (mujeres, inmigrantes, miembros de la élite) tienen". Pero a las personas les encanta moralizar su envidia y, muy a menudo, lo que empieza siendo pura envidia deriva hacia un "son malas personas, no merecen lo que tienen".

Roosevelt vio que los derechos protegen a la democracia del embate de la envidia. Nadie puede envidiar de su prójimo lo que toda persona tiene por derecho. Elevar ciertas bondades económicas clave a la categoría de derechos socava la envidia, al menos hasta cierto punto. Una de las razones por las que vemos tanta envidia es porque las personas no se sienten seguras en lo que a la base económica de sus vidas respecta.

And how did he ever think he'd get away with murdering me?" Her tone implied she must surely belong to that rare breed of mortals who must go unmurdered.

The ability to detect fallacy is one of the things that makes democratic life decent.

I've been told that I don't like women. I do like women. I think chicks are cool. I've been told that men don't like women, period. Oh yeah? Who does then? Because women don't like women. Sometimes life looks very familiar. Life often has that familiar look in its eyes. Life is all vendetta, conspiracy, strong feeling, roused pride, self-belief, belief in the justice of its tides and floods. Here is a secret that nobody knows: God is a woman. Look around! Of course She is.

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

Justice will be found, said Plato, when everyone does their own job, and minds their own business

André Aciman's letter reflected a widespread concern that, even though the first decade of the Twenty–First Century was closing with a search for reconciliation and understanding between Christian and Muslim societies, Jews who had lived in Muslim lands would not be remembered, nor their hopes for justice upheld.

Nothing could persuade him to accept the possibility of compromise with evil at the expense of others, or to abandon his faith in the rule of law, the supremacy of elected Parliaments and the rights of the individual.

it's never wrong time to do the right thing

Ce qui m'effraie, ce n'est pas l'oppression des méchants; c'est l'indifférence des bons.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

There are some things so dear, some things so precious, some things so eternally true, that they are worth dying for. And I submit to you that if a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

if the man did not find something to die for,he will not fit to life...

La injusticia en cualquier lugar es una amenaza para la justicia en todas partes

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Change takes a long time, but it does happen. ... Each of us who works for social change is part of the mosaic of all who work for justice; together we can accomplish multitudes.

The time is always right to do what is right.

And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.