Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas, for England they have no graves as yet"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Poor men's reasons are not heard"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Measures must always, in a progressive society, be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings!"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them!"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"The place of justice is a hallowed place"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience, but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme"

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"Tomorrow at 7, I shall be shot; but I am innocent of the crime of rebellion. I am going to die with a tranquil conscience"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die"

Martin Luther, Professor

Martin Luther

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?"

Kahlil Gibran, Poet

Kahlil Gibran

"Hear the other side"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men, with Nature as its instrument"

C. S. Lewis, Author

C. S. Lewis

"A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"The severity of the laws prevents their execution"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

Charles de Montesquieu

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