Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands, using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way"

David Korten, Activist

"The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country"

Gary Johnson

"We have no more fundamental obligation in government than to ensure the safety of our citizens"

Robert. L. Ehrlich, Politician

"The most dangerous area, where our laws are not being faithfully executed, are the laws designed to protect Americans against the millions of aliens who enter our country illegally every year"

Phyllis Schlafly, Activist

"For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it"

Martin Van Buren, President

"In a system where the cost of care is hidden by taxes levied on your income, property, and business activities, it is no wonder why so many Americans rely on Medicaid to pay their long term care"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth"

Jean Giraudoux, Dramatist

"A book might be written on the injustice of the just"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration"

Susan George, Activist

"One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"I took upon myself to enact the part of a poor, unfortunate crazy girl, and felt it my duty not to shirk any of the disagreeable results that should follow"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure, but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze, inefficient, incomprehensible, and inaccessible"

Elliot Richardson, Lawyer

"Though every legal task demands this skill, it is especially important in the effort to frame public policy in a way that is properly responsive to human needs and predicaments. The question is always: How will the general rule work in practice?"

Elliot Richardson, Lawyer

"As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs"

Kurt Huber, Professor

"If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned"

George Sutherland, Judge

"I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was there. Yet they did, and their report to the court advises all the changes made that I had proposed"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind"

Edwidge Danticat, Author

"The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy"

David Korten, Activist

"Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime"

George Wald, Scientist

"The wolf always charges the lamb with muddying the stream"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"Proposition 19 already is a winner no matter what happens on election day. The mere fact of its being on the ballot has elevated and legitimized public discourse about marijuana and marijuana policy in ways I could not have imagined a year ago"

George Soros, Businessman

"The criminalization of marijuana did not prevent marijuana from becoming the most widely used illegal substance in the United States and many other countries. But it did result in extensive costs and negative consequences"

George Soros, Businessman

"And as far as I'm concerned, it's like I say, drugs are not the problem. Other stuff is the problem"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty"

George Farquhar, Dramatist

"The idea that UN commitments should be followed by action is indeed a radical one, especially for the United States, where wilful neglect of its own commitments is the rule"

Jeffrey Sachs, Economist

"It has become much more difficult to smuggle dangerous substances across our borders over the past three years, and this is creating real problems for drug traffickers"

John Walters, Musician

"The public should know that the liability issues here have yet to be resolved, or even raised. If you're a farmer and you're growing a genetically engineering food crop, those genes are going to flow to the other farm"

Jeremy Rifkin, Economist

"You are either a Zionist or an anti-Zionist"

Tom Paulin, Poet

"Everyone who supports Israel is a Zionist"

Tom Paulin, Poet

"The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country"

Dennis Miller, Comedian

"Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case"

Vincent Bugliosi, Author

"The consequences of a crime should not be out of proportion to the crime itself"

John F. Kerry, Politician

"Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not"

Slavoj Zizek, Philosopher

"It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws"

Garet Garrett, Journalist

"The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice, it becomes itself injustice"

Benjamin Tucker, Activist

"When the franc was in danger of collapsing in 1956, it was the Americans who propped it up and their reward was to be insulted and swindled on the streets of Paris. I was there. I saw it"

Gordon Sinclair, Journalist

"You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process"

Birch Bayh, Politician

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