Quotes about justice
justice violence causes
Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda. Jacques Ellul
justice people demand
People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver. Helen Garner
justice charity substitutes
Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice. Henry George
justice three capitalist
The superior freedom of the capitalist system, its superior justice, and its superior productivity are not three superiorities, but one. The justice follows from the freedom and the productivity follows from the freedom and the justice. Henry Hazlitt
justice progress income
Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.
justice three flow
The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.
justice done care
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. Patricia Highsmith
justice giving giving-back
The justice I have received, I shall give back.
justice eating-alone bakeries
For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating. Pablo Neruda
justice stronger advantage
Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger. Plato
justice stronger principles
Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.
justice
Justice is having and doing what is one's own.
justice evil injustice
To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.
justice suffering customs
Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.
justice may hearing
May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
justice needs would-be
Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.
justice might might-is-right
Do not expect justice where might is right.
justice crime
When there is crime in society, there is no justice.
justice weakness force
It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation. Paulo Freire
justice intellectual social-justice
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
justice humanity six
To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence. Martin Seligman
justice firsts social
My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI. Martin Sheen
justice words-of-wisdom taxation
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women, from any share in the representation; that exclusion is also repugnant to the particular principles of the British Constitution. It violates one of the oldest of our constitutional maxims...that taxation and representation should be co-extensive. Do not women pay taxes? John Stuart Mill
justice tree inward
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
justice support feelings
I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency. John Rawls
justice tolerance theory
The only thing that permits us to acquiesce in an erroneous theory is the lack of a better one, analogously, an injustice is tolerable only when it is necessary to avoid an even greater injustice.
justice may normal
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
justice might half
An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.
justice want fairness
Justice as fairness provides what we want.
justice judging fundamentals
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.
justice firsts virtue
Justice is the first virtue of social institutions,
justice assuming advantage
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.
justice reform obedience
The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.