Society, Justice & Peace: Justice Quotes

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"The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges"

Benazir Bhutto, Leader

Benazir Bhutto

"The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

Bertolt Brecht

"It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk"

Bertolt Brecht, Poet

Bertolt Brecht

"The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence"

Mary Astell, Writer

Mary Astell

"But I don't believe in guilt by association"

Marion Jones, Athlete

Marion Jones

"Once again, we see the Bush administration paying for its failed policies by cutting funds to vital public services and jeopardizing more American jobs"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

"Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

"The punishment should fit the crime, and if a doctor or drug company does harm knowingly or negligently to a patient, they should be compensated to make them whole"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

"Without the funding, Amtrak needs to keep operating, we will soon see people that rely on Amtrak to get them to work each day, waiting for a train that isn't coming"

Corrine Brown, Politician

Corrine Brown

"It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina"

Mel Martinez, Politician

Mel Martinez

"Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches"

David Hume, Philosopher

David Hume

"I think it's wrong the way they criminalize herb. There are many more uses than just smoking. Beneficial to mankind"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

Ziggy Marley

"The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

Ziggy Marley

"When history looks back, I want people to know that the Nazis could not kill millions of people with impunity"

Simon Wiesenthal, Activist

Simon Wiesenthal

"Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

Lisa Bonet

"Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself"

Jane Addams, Activist

Jane Addams

"The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

Rush Limbaugh

"Laws are the sovereigns of sovereigns"

Louis XIV, Royalty

Louis XIV

"It is legal because I wish it"

Louis XIV, Royalty

Louis XIV

"America is just downright mean"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

Michelle Obama

"Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer"

Julian Casablancas, Musician

Julian Casablancas

"Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life"

Daniel Webster, Statesman

Daniel Webster

"It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

Ulysses S. Grant

"What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one!"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

Sitting Bull

"Law and order are the medicine of the body politic, and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

B. R. Ambedkar

"Power is what men seek, and any group that gets it will abuse it"

Lincoln Steffens, Journalist

Lincoln Steffens

"It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

Martin Bashir

"I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity"

Martin Bashir, Journalist

Martin Bashir

"Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class"

Al Capone, Criminal

"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian

"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land"

Jack Kerouac, Novelist

"Confess and be hanged"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

Christopher Marlowe

"We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons"

Gale Sayers, Athlete

Gale Sayers

"Delay in justice is injustice"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words"

Ulrich Beck, Sociologist

Ulrich Beck

"Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested"

John Gotti, Criminal

John Gotti

"If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government"

George Crook, Soldier

"Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital"

Angela Davis, Activist

"A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government"

Al Gore, Vice President

Al Gore

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