Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

Jesse Jackson

"It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations"

Jacques Yves Cousteau, Explorer

Jacques Yves Cousteau

"Envy, among other ingredients, has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens"

Henry Miller, Writer

Henry Miller

"Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The biggest problem that we have is that California is being run now by special interests. All of the politicians are not anymore making the moves for the people, but for special interests, and we have to stop that"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Political work is the life-blood of all economic work"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

Mao Tse-Tung

"Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason"

Miguel de Cervantes, Novelist

Miguel de Cervantes

"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government"

James Madison, President

James Madison

"It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation!"

Colin Powell, Statesman

Colin Powell

"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

Simone Weil

"Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer"

Mason Cooley, Writer

Mason Cooley

"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

Audrey Hepburn

"Just vengeance does not call for punishment"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

Malcolm Forbes

"Any government that supports, protects, or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent, and equally guilty of terrorist crimes"

George W. Bush, President

George W. Bush

"One with the law is a majority"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"Government has no other end, but the preservation of property"

John Locke, Philosopher

John Locke

"Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery"

Calvin Coolidge, President

Calvin Coolidge

"After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"For hostile word, let hostile word be paid"

Aeschylus, Playwright

Aeschylus

"Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

Simone de Beauvoir

"Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"If [the legislature] will positively enact a thing to be done, the judges are not at liberty to reject it, for that were to set the judicial power above that of the legislature, which would be subversive of all government"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"The most universal and effectual way of discovering the true meaning of law, when the words are dubious, is by considering the reason and spirit of it; or the cause which moved the legislator to enact it. For when this reason ceased, the law itself ought likewise to cease with it"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times: no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"We want a country where the rule of law is respected and where corruption is eradicated"

Volodymyr Zelensky, President

Volodymyr Zelensky

"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than in the protection of every individual's private rights"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who run the schools and the city"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

Toni Morrison

"Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are"

Toni Morrison, Novelist

Toni Morrison

"Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

Mikhail Bakunin

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