Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"You want to balance the budget in this country? We change the salary structure for Congress and the President. Every year they don't balance the budget, we don't pay them"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball"

Bill Bradley, Politician

Bill Bradley

"The welfare system in the United States is vile"

Daniel Keys Moran, Writer

Daniel Keys Moran

"I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

Jerry Falwell

"The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Novelist

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The 22nd Amendment should probably be modified to say two consecutive terms instead of two terms for a lifetime"

William J. Clinton, President

William J. Clinton

"You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

Kathleen Turner

"Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

Maximilien Robespierre

"Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

Maximilien Robespierre

"People have the power to redeem the work of fools"

Patti Smith, Musician

"The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

Walter Lippmann

"Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"More than 90 percent of all the prisoners in our American prisons have been abused as children"

John Powell, Composer

John Powell

"History, sociology, economics, psychology et al. confirmed Joyce's view of Everyman as victim"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad"

William Howard Taft, President

"Today's difference between Russia and the United States is that in Russia everybody takes everybody else for a spy, and in the United States everybody takes everybody else for a criminal"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"We live in a stage of politics where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement"

William Howard Taft, President

"The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God"

William Howard Taft, President

"I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the rights of believers"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts"

Pat Robertson, Clergyman

"You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism"

Alexander Haig, Public Servant

"Justice is horrible"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

"I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me"

Barbra Streisand, Actress

Barbra Streisand

"In the aftermath of September 11, and as the 9/11 Commission report so aptly demonstrates, it is clear that our intelligence system is not working the way that it should"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

Hillary Clinton

"Countries that will not tax their elite, who expect us to come in and help them serve their people, are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

Hillary Clinton

"One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

Hillary Clinton

"The Few assume to be the deputies, but they are often only the despoilers of the Many"

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Philosopher

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws"

Robert Peel, Leader

"Many laws, as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth"

Mortimer Adler, Philosopher

"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns"

Mario Puzo, Novelist

Mario Puzo

"Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security"

Anna Lindh, Politician

"Murder will out, this my conclusion"

Geoffrey Chaucer, Poet

"It's beyond belief that any Australian could be so stupid as to carry drugs into any country in Asia"

John Howard, Statesman

"The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical"

George Crook, Soldier

"We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy, and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do"

Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist

Karl A. Menninger

"I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience"

Elisabeth Rohm, Actress

Elisabeth Rohm

"I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments"

Emma Thompson, Actress

Emma Thompson

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