Justice Quotes

What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.

27299 quotes

"Justice is the highest human value."
Friedrich Engels
M
"No man is truly free who controls another man's labor."
Michel Bakunin
M
"The patriot is not the one who loves his nation, but one who loves justice."
Michel Bakunin
M
"Economic inequality breeds political oppression and social decay."
Michel Bakunin
M
"Justice demands that privilege be abolished and equality established."
Michel Bakunin
M
"Capital is theft; the worker creates all value."
Michel Bakunin
M
"Poverty is not natural but created by exploitative systems."
Michel Bakunin
M
"Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere and demands response."
Michel Bakunin
M
"Patience with injustice is complicity in that injustice."
Michel Bakunin
E
"Woman's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights."
Emma Goldman
E
"Every society has the criminals it deserves."
Emma Goldman
E
"To ask for justice in a court of law is to ask for bread from a stone."
Emma Goldman
E
"The measure of a civilization is the freedom it accords to minorities."
Emma Goldman
E
"The oppressed and the oppressor both lose their humanity."
Emma Goldman
E
"The real crime is not the stealing of goods but the exploitation of human labor."
Emma Goldman
P
"Every person has the right to develop their talents and capacities."
Peter Kropotkin
P
"A just society cannot be built on foundations of injustice."
Peter Kropotkin
P
"Intelligence is distributed equally among all classes; only opportunity is not."
Peter Kropotkin
P
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and patience with oppression is no virtue."
Peter Kropotkin
S
"A corrupt official is more dangerous than an invading army."
Simón Bolívar
S
"To be just is to be happy, and injustice brings only misery."
Simón Bolívar
S
"To create a just society, one must be willing to sacrifice personal comfort."
Simón Bolívar
S
"A just law is worth more than a hundred armies."
Simón Bolívar
K
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps."
Karl Marx
K
"Labour in the white skin can never free itself as long as labour in the black skin is branded."
Karl Marx
K
"Society can be freed from the bonds of interest only by the conscious action of the working class."
Karl Marx
K
"Every diminution of the predisposing causes to crime must be considered as a proportional diminution of crime itself."
Karl Marx
K
"In a rational society, there would be no poverty."
Karl Marx
A
"Subalternity is not just an economic condition but a total way of being."
Antonio Gramsci
A
"The dominated group's intellectuals must develop a counter-hegemony to challenge domination."
Antonio Gramsci