Quotes About Justice

A group, as such, has no rights. A man can neither acquire new rights by joining a group nor lose the rights which he does possess. The principle of individual rights is the only moral base of all groups or associations. Any group that does not recognize this principle is not an association, but a gang or a mob.

But, after all, I did break one of your laws." "Well, what do you think they're for?

Al aceptar el castigo, no por culpa alguna, sino por nuestras virtudes, traicionamos nuestro codigo e hicimos posible el suyo.

justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists. . .

I, who do not accept the unearned, neither in values nor in guilt

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer.

Cuando alguien acusa a otro de no tener sentimientos, ello significa que tal persona es justa. Que se trata de un ser cuyas emociones nunca carecen de base, de alguien que nunca otorgará sentimientos que el otro no merezca. Significa que sentir es ir contra la razón, contra los valores morales y contra la realidad.

Litigants obey the verdict of a tribunal solely on the premise that there is an objective rule of conduct, which they both accept.

a man has rights which neither god nor king nor other men can take away from him, no matter what their number, for his is the right of man, and there is no right on earth above this right.

Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for beeing good. One can't be penalized for ability. If that is right, then we'd better start slaughtering one another, because there isn't any right at all in the world.

Debo recordarte también que el derecho a la vida es la fuente de la que manan todos los derechos, incluido el derecho de propiedad.

Las únicas funciones apropiadas de un gobierno son: la policía, para protegerte de los criminales; el ejército, para protegerte de invasores extranjeros, y los tribunales, para proteger tu propiedad y tus contratos de las violaciones, incumplimientos o fraudes de los otros, y para dirimir las disputas apelando a reglas racionales y según la ley objetiva.

I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others, but earn it by my own achievement. Just

Observe also that an honest theoretician does not try to present his ideas in the guise of their opposites. But Kant's philosophy is presented as "pure reason"—altruism is presented as a doctrine of "love"—communism is presented as "liberation"—and egalitarianism is presented as "justice.

Nada puede hacer que sea moral destruir a los mejores. Uno no puede ser castigado por ser bueno.

es imposible que la gente viva sin quebrantar alguna ley.

If one feels compassion for the victims of a concentration camp, one cannot feel it for the torturers. If one does feel compassion for the torturers, it is an act of moral treason toward the victims.

he had acquired the conviction that one had to concern oneself with the rational, not the insane—that one had to seek that which was right, because the right answer always won—that the senseless, the wrong, the monstrously unjust could not work, could not succeed, could do nothing but defeat itself.

La più piccola minoranza al mondo è l'individuo. Chiunque neghi i diritti dell'individuo non può sostenere di essere un difensore delle minoranze.

Sin derechos de propiedad ningún otro derecho es posible.

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

Nadie puede escapar de la justicia, nada puede ser no ganado y no pagado en el universo

He never seeks or desires the unearned.

La libertad que buscas es libertad del hecho de que si tu riqueza la hiciste robando, eres un ladrón, no importa cuánto dones a la caridad o cuántas plegarias recites;