Justice Quotes

"No reform is truly progressive unless it is connected to a larger transformation of society."

"Every system of domination carries within it the contradictions that will eventually destroy it."

"The subaltern classes have their own history, even if that history has been suppressed and forgotten."

"We must fight for the creation of a new moral and intellectual order in society."

"Every society has the criminals it deserves."

"Every person deserves to live a life of dignity and respect."

"Society punishes those who dare to think differently."

"To accept injustice is to perpetuate it."

"Justice cannot be administered by those who profit from injustice."

"To accept one's place in an unjust system is to be complicit in it."

"Silence in the face of injustice is a form of agreement."

"One's duty is to speak the truth and to expose lies."

"Justice without power is ineffective; power without justice is tyranny."

"The measure of a civilization is how it treats its working class."

"Kindness becomes justice when organized into systematic action."

"The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"

"All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil."

"The law is a ass."

"Delay in justice is injustice."

"Publicity is the very soul of justice."

"The foundation of justice is good faith."

"The way to prevent immorality is not by punishment but by removing temptation."

"The greatest achievement of our civilization is the abolition of slavery."

"The discipline of nations is not through punishment, but through reward."

"The law is not an instrument of justice, but an instrument of control."

"Production based on capital and wage-labour presupposes a class of workers."

"The struggle for individual rights is fundamentally a struggle for economic equality."

"Private property is theft of the common inheritance of humanity."

"In a just society, each contributes according to ability and receives according to need."

"A revolutionary class must create a new moral and intellectual order."