Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

Mikhail Bakunin

"Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence"

Adam Smith, Economist

Adam Smith

"If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end"

Herbert Hoover, President

Herbert Hoover

"As long as the world shall last, there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws"

John Adams, President

John Adams

"Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

Thomas Szasz

"Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do"

Neil Young, Musician

Neil Young

"The first is the law, the last prerogative"

John Dryden, Poet

John Dryden

"The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"In the souls of the people, the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage"

John Steinbeck, Author

John Steinbeck

"The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future"

Herman Melville, Novelist

Herman Melville

"Right is its own defense"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

Bertolt Brecht

"Laws are like sausages. It is better not to see them being made"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

Otto von Bismarck

"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues!"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

David Herbert Lawrence

"Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

"Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends"

George Will, Journalist

George Will

"No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith"

Anton Chekhov, Dramatist

Anton Chekhov

"And the people who live in the southern part of my state do not have a secure environment. To wit, there are signs that the government put up that say, 'Warning. You are in a drug smuggling area and a human smuggling area.'"

John McCain, Politician

John McCain

"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale"

Gore Vidal, Novelist

Gore Vidal

"I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living"

Davy Crockett, Explorer

Davy Crockett

"In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem"

Orson Welles, Actor

Orson Welles

"If you want peace, work for justice"

Pope Paul VI, Clergyman

Pope Paul VI

"To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

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