Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior"

Thucydides, Historian

"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured"

Thucydides, Historian

"Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation"

Claude Levi-Strauss, Scientist

"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is"

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Novelist

"Peace to the shacks! War on the palaces!"

Georg Buchner, Dramatist

"We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people"

Henry Clay, Statesman

"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law"

Oliver Goldsmith, Poet

"A law can be both economic folly and constitutional"

Antonin Scalia, Judge

"The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely"

Robert Bolt, Playwright

"Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man"

Hesiod, Poet

"People have a right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you"

Layne Staley, Musician

"What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court"

Anita Hill, Professor

"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant"

Anita Hill, Professor

"In revolutions, authority remains with the greatest scoundrels"

Georges Jacques Danton, Revolutionary

"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind"

William Godwin, Writer

"Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie"

Horace Walpole, Author

"The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"Privilege is the greatest enemy of right"

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Novelist

"The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"King of England, and you, Duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the King of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the King of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France"

Joan of Arc, Celebrity

"Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful"

Molly Ivins, Journalist

"Ask anyone committed to Marxist analysis how many angels on the head of a pin, and you will be asked in return to never mind the angels, tell me who controls the production of pins"

Joan Didion, Author

"The layman's constitutional view is that what he likes is constitutional and that which he doesn't like is unconstitutional"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal"

Friedrich Engels, Philosopher

"Laws are made to protect the trusting as well as the suspicious"

Hugo Black, Judge

"Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now"

Drew Carey, Actor

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist"

Lysander Spooner, Philosopher

"Mere access to the courthouse doors does not, by itself, assure a proper functioning of the adversary process"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"Outside of the Constitution, we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects"

Andrew Johnson, President

"Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country"

Marion Barry, Politician

"That which is not just is not law"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands"

Thurgood Marshall, Judge

"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it"

Andrew Johnson, President

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