Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"If God is just, I tremble for my country"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"He who spares the bad injures the good"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

Publilius Syrus

"The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I say that justice is truth in action"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

Benjamin Disraeli

"Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue"

Francis Bacon, Philosopher

Francis Bacon

"Law has no skin, reason has no nostrils"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"Punishment is justice for the unjust"

Saint Augustine, Saint

Saint Augustine

"The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force"

Karl Marx, Philosopher

Karl Marx

"Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime"

John Ruskin, Writer

John Ruskin

"If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis"

Camille Paglia, Author

Camille Paglia

"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency"

Robert Browning Hamilton, Writer

Robert Browning Hamilton

"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

Sigmund Freud

"Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate"

Bertrand Russell, Philosopher

Bertrand Russell

"There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

Charles de Montesquieu

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

Edmund Burke

"I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence"

Malcolm X, Activist

Malcolm X

"Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

Thomas Aquinas

"Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals"

George Washington, President

George Washington

"There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses"

Andrew Jackson, President

Andrew Jackson

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal"

Erich Fromm, Psychologist

Erich Fromm

"I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment"

James Madison, President

James Madison

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced"

Frank Zappa, Musician

Frank Zappa

"All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world"

Alice Walker, Author

Alice Walker

"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

Pope John Paul II

"But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: the forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship"

Wangari Maathai, Activist

Wangari Maathai

"There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people"

Hubert H. Humphrey, Politician

Hubert H. Humphrey

"A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves"

Grover Cleveland, President

Grover Cleveland

"We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong"

Max Cannon, Artist

Max Cannon

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

Ralph Nader

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong"

John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist

John Kenneth Galbraith

"The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges"

Benazir Bhutto, Leader

Benazir Bhutto

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