549 quotes found
“Our sense of justice depends on our sense of time. Justice is a phenomenon only of consciousness, because time spread out in a spatial succession is its very essence. And this is possible only in a...”
“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than politics. They were...”
“If not us, then who? Who's going to stand when everyone else kneels? Who's going to argue for the law even when there's no justice to be had? Who's going to try even when the trying is too damn hard?”
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder ...”
“Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.”
“For having been educated in a convent, she knew nothing of the customs or manners of the world; and found it difficult to understand that among a people piquing themselves on their liberty, it was ...”
“Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.”
“It's a tricky, complex, indifferent society, Puss. It's a loophole world. And there are a lot of clever animals who know how to reach through the loopholes and pick the pockets of the unsuspecting.”
“Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.”
“Vengeance is the outer shell of a blade which carries the core named Justice. Justice is the wind that decides Vengeances course.”
“It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have an ounce of strength left in me, or any life left in me.”
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated i...”
“I've always privately suspected that Jesus is in favor of revolutionaries, seeing as how he was a bit of one himself.”
“You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.”
“Harsh justice is still justice.”
“Do you think I will suffer myself to be baffled?”
“Mr Mandela, who had given his whole life for justice and had never once thought of himself. How unlike these people were modern politicians, who thought only of power and tricks.”
“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”
“...A world is supported by four things...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler...”
“Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but its the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.”
