Justice Quotes - Page 26

• When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation.

  Aristotle

  Children, Couple, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.257, Aristotle

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• I do not mean to impugn the social justice and social expediency of the redistribution of incomes aimed at by N.I.R.A. and by the various schemes for agricultural restriction. The latter, in particular, I should strongly support in principle. But too much emphasis on the remedial value of a higher price-level as an object in itself may lead to serious misapprehension as to the part which prices can play in the technique of recovery. The stimulation of output by increasing aggregate purchasing power is the right way to get prices up; and not the other way round.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Mean, Recovery, Play

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• So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.

  Naomi Klein

  Economic Models, Climate, Needs

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• I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.

  Leonard Read

  Letting Go, Men, Law

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• Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit

  Pericles

  Hands, Government, Excellence

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• Today the Justice Department released e-mails where Walker criticized America. In the e-mails he said he never wanted to set foot in America again. See, that's the good part about hanging somebody. Their feet don't touch the ground.

  Jay Leno

  America, Feet, Mail

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• To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

  George Ripley

  Religious, Principles, Movement

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• The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Mean, Fighting, Terrorism

  "Living together takes effort" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2005.

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• I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.

  H. Rap Brown

  Lying, Rewards, States

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• There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

  Brad Thor

  Social Justice, Social, Social Equality

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• When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man.

  Albert Camus

  Fall, Responsibility, Men

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.25, Vintage

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• Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Rip, Democracy, Together

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• God never punishes his children in the sense of avenging justice. He chastens as a father does his child, but he never punishes his redeemed as a judge does a criminal. It is unjust to exact punishment from redeemed souls since Christ has been punished in their place. How shall the Lord punish twice for one offense?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Father, Punishment

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• I've been a member of the Labour Party sixty five years, and I remain in it, but I think it's all about campaigning for justice and peace, and if you do that, you get a lot of support.

  Tony Benn

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• ...As the disparity between the rich and the poor grows, the fight to corner resources is intensifying. To push through their "sweetheart deals," to corporatize the crops we grow, the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the dreams we dream, corporate globalization needs an international confederation of loyal, corrupt, authoritarian governments in poorer countries to push through unpopular reforms and quell the mutinies. Corporate Globalization-or shall we call it by its name?-Imperialism-needs a press that pretends to be free. It needs courts that pretend to dispense justice.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Dream, Fighting

  California River Watch 2011 Annual Statement, criverwatch.org. 2011.

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• Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

  Steven Erikson

  Compassion, Promise, Deceit

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• It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Hands, America, Ends

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• We need to believe I think in justice. We need to run our lives as if justice existed... If we abandon a belief that justice will eventually be done, we make this world much more difficult for ourselves.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Running, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Now when you get something like the Apocalypse of John, when this avenging God is going to have blood to the bridle bits for 200 miles, I think that's venous, I don't think that's justice, I don't think that's Jesus, and I don't think it's the God of Jesus. That's the killer God, and the trouble with the killer God is that it justifies us doing the same, and in fact it invites us maybe to start with a bit.

  John Dominic Crossan

  Jesus, Thinking, Blood

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Writing, Cameras, Lenses

  Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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• I must have justice, or I will destroy myself. And not justice in some remote and infinite time and space, but here on Earth...I want to see with my own eyes the lamb lie down with the lion and the victim rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly understands what it has all been about. All the religions of the world are built on this longing, and I am a believer.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Eye, Infinite Time

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• Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Think things, not words." In words, many see a need for "social justice" to override "the dictates of the market." In reality, what is called "the market" consists of human beings making their own choices at their own cost. What is called "social justice" is government imposition of the notions of third parties, who pay no price for being wrong.

  Thomas Sowell

  Party, Reality, Thinking

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• When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

  Plato

  Crime

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• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Play, Frustrated, Progress

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• The cost of justice can be justly paid only by the invader.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Cost, Invaders, Paid

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