Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so"

Samuel Butler, Poet

Samuel Butler

"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

Jeremy Bentham

"We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

Wangari Maathai

"A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed"

Rene Descartes, Mathematician

Rene Descartes

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality"

Desmond Tutu, Leader

Desmond Tutu

"Powerful states can maintain themselves only by crime, little states are virtuous only by weakness"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

Mikhail Bakunin

"As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce"

Adam Smith, Economist

Adam Smith

"Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; justice is what comes out of a courtroom"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

Clarence Darrow

"Trial by jury is a privilege of the highest and most beneficial nature [and] our most important guardian both of public and private liberty. The liberties of England cannot but subsist so long as this palladium remains sacred and inviolate, not only from all open attacks, ... but also from all secret machinations, which may sap and undermine it"

William Blackstone, Judge

William Blackstone

"The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

Mario Cuomo

"If you can manipulate news, a judge can manipulate the law. A smart lawyer can keep a killer out of jail, a smart accountant can keep a thief from paying taxes, a smart reporter could ruin your reputation- unfairly"

Mario Cuomo, Politician

Mario Cuomo

"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while, then a layer of scum floats to the top"

Edward Abbey, Author

Edward Abbey

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

"Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

Simon Wiesenthal

"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him"

Cardinal Richelieu, Clergyman

Cardinal Richelieu

"Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

Hannah Arendt

"To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty"

Maximilien Robespierre, Leader

Maximilien Robespierre

"I'm armed with more than complete steel - the justice of my quarrel"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner"

James Bovard, Author

"Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes"

Felix Frankfurter, Judge

"The law is not an end in itself, nor does it provide ends. It is preeminently a means to serve what we think is right"

Harlan Stone, Lawyer

Harlan Stone

"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; he fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard"

John Webster, Playwright

John Webster

"Sometimes it seemed to me I could not look at those silent little figures; that I must go north, to the grim coal fields, to the Rocky Mountain camps, where the labor fight is at least fought by grown men"

Mary Harris Jones, Activist

"Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes"

Georgios A. Papandreou, Politician

"Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division"

Jerry Brown, Politician

"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"

Tony Blair, Statesman

Tony Blair

"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes"

Daniel Defoe, Journalist

"Putting a stop to internet gambling is a necessary reform that targets flagrant violations of state and federal laws"

John Shadegg, Politician

"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it"

Jack Kirby, Cartoonist

Jack Kirby

"The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose"

James Earl Jones, Actor

"It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

Sandra Day O'Connor

"The collapse of Enron was devastating to tens of thousands of people and shook the public's confidence in corporate America"

Robert Mueller, Public Servant

"It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country"

John Perkins, Economist

"One precedent creates another, and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine"

Junius, Writer

"And when people in power can stay in power, they do very little to tinker with the apparatus that put them in power"

DeForest Soaries, Politician

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