justice Quotes

“Sometimes it seems like it’s only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper.”

― Stephen King, The Shining

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“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

topic:death justice judgement

“The justice which began with the maxim, 'Everything can be paid off, everything must be paid off,' ends with connivance at the escape of those who cannot pay to escape—it ends, like every good thing on earth, by destroying itself.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality

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“One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty.”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“that war is just which is necessary, and arms are hallowed when there is no other hope but in them.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

topic:war justice

“There is no such thing as foreign or civil war; there is only just and unjust war.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“The value of all things contracted for, is measured by the Appetite of the Contractors: and therefore the just value, is that which they be contented to give.”

― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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“Hang all the husbands that cannot do that feat, you'll leave yourself hardly one subject.”

― William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale

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“Today, however, we have to realize that a true ecological approach always becomes a social approach; it must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

topic:poverty justice

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