Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death"

Marquis de Sade, Novelist

Marquis de Sade

"Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

Arundhati Roy

"As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this"

George Mason, Statesman

George Mason

"I retired from public business from a thorough conviction that it was not in my power to do any good, and very much disgusted with measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common policy and justice"

George Mason, Statesman

George Mason

"Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

Walter Benjamin

"Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation"

Jane Addams, Activist

Jane Addams

"America has entered one of its periods of historic madness, but this is the worst I can remember"

John Le Carre, Author

John Le Carre

"There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob"

Herodotus, Historian

Herodotus

"People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"Poverty is not the root cause of crime"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

Billy Sunday

"Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

Nikita Khrushchev

"Crime is naught but misdirected energy"

Emma Goldman, Activist

Emma Goldman

"The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election"

Gerald R. Ford, President

Gerald R. Ford

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change"

Andre Gide, Novelist

Andre Gide

"It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures"

Potter Stewart, Judge

Potter Stewart

"To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means, to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal, would bring terrible retribution"

Louis D. Brandeis, Judge

Louis D. Brandeis

"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive"

Roland Barthes, Critic

Roland Barthes

"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

Ulysses S. Grant

"I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"When we violate the law ourselves, whatever short-term advantage may be gained, we are obviously encouraging others to violate the law; we thus encourage disorder and instability and thereby do incalculable damage to our own long-term interests"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless"

James Baldwin, Educator

James Baldwin

"Insofar as international law is observed, it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations"

J. William Fulbright, Politician

J. William Fulbright

"Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

Jawaharlal Nehru

"Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court"

Michael Jackson, Musician

"Mandatory minimums have been shown to be discriminatory and waste the taxpayers' money"

Bobby Scott, Politician

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged"

Noam Chomsky, Activist

Noam Chomsky

"The humble are in danger when those in power disagree"

Phaedrus, Poet

Phaedrus

"When George Bush used the Willie Horton ad, he knew what he was doing"

Paul Tsongas, Politician

Paul Tsongas

"If it has to choose who is to be crucified, the crowd will always save Barabbas"

Jean Cocteau, Director

Jean Cocteau

"Justice is incidental to law and order"

J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant

"We are a fact-gathering organization only. We don't clear anybody. We don't condemn anybody"

J. Edgar Hoover, Public Servant

"Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street, it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard"

John Powell, Composer

John Powell

"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"Often the masses are plundered and do not know it"

Frederic Bastiat, Economist

"As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country"

William Howard Taft, President

"Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law"

William Howard Taft, President

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