Justice Quotes

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

27299 quotes

"The imperialist powers speak of humanity but what they mean is to take advantage of the resources of other peoples."
Che Guevara
"The wealthy and the dispossessed cannot share the same world."
Che Guevara
"Injustice anywhere is an affront to the conscience of humanity everywhere."
Che Guevara
"Poverty is not just an economic condition; it is a violation of human rights."
Che Guevara
B
"Justice is whatever serves the nation's interest."
Benito Mussolini
J
"To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... there is nothing sweeter in the world."
Joseph Stalin
J
"Mercilessness is the highest form of mercy."
Joseph Stalin
J
"The workers are the true owners of the state."
Joseph Stalin
J
"Betrayal must be punished with absolute severity."
Joseph Stalin
J
"The kulaks must be liquidated as a class."
Joseph Stalin
J
"We must eliminate the parasites who feed on the working class."
Joseph Stalin
J
"The law is a weapon of class warfare, nothing more."
Joseph Stalin
M
"In class struggle, some people fall behind, while we must help them along."
Mao Zedong
V
"The machinery of state is designed to protect property before it protects people."
Vladimir Lenin
E
"It seems to me that every person has a right to at least enough money to feed and clothe them."
Eleanor Roosevelt
E
"It is your responsibility to make the world better."
Eleanor Roosevelt
E
"I believe that everyone has a right to a useful and honorable place in the world."
Eleanor Roosevelt
L
"Bureaucratic privilege is incompatible with true socialism."
Leon Trotsky
M
"It is right to rebel against reactionaries."
Mao Zedong
J
"Justice is what benefits the state"
Joseph Stalin
B
"I have not waged war against the Church but against its abuses."
Benito Mussolini
V
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and the people will not wait forever."
Vladimir Lenin
W
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Winston Churchill
W
"We are in the presence of a crime against humanity."
Winston Churchill
F
"In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"Unscrupulous employers were allowed to employ child labor, sell foodstuffs below cost to drive their competitors out of business, and maintain whatever safety conditions they chose."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
F
"Put it this way; no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages has any right to continue."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
L
"Justice without enforcement is merely wishful thinking."
Leon Trotsky
V
"The purpose of revolution is not to create a new master, but to liberate the enslaved."
Vladimir Lenin