#justice

And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea. ↗

— James Agee

#morality #morals #right #social-justice #society

I wish we had the technology to fight God on an equal basis. To beard him in his den. To fight back for all of the injustices heaped on humanity. To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#anti-theism #god #injustice #anger

Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#believe #confirming #court #democratic #i

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#against #among #been #before #care

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well. ↗

— Sachin Tendulkar

#aspect #cricket #family #i #i think

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#angry #deserved #envy #ingredients #justice

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#contemporary #expedience #justice #law #rule

As prime minister, I will never make a decision that will be an injustice to Serbia and its citizens. ↗