Justice Quotes
What is fair? What is right? Voices from history weigh in on the most fundamental human question.
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"The fact that so many people shrug and accept injustice is the real tragedy of our time."Saul Bellow
"Justice delayed is justice denied, and we delay it constantly."Saul Bellow
"Killing is not the problem; it's the justification that matters."Joseph Heller
"America is the lawyer's paradise."Norman Mailer
"Justice is a human construct, not a law of nature."Norman Mailer
"The year was 2081, and everybody was finally equal."Kurt Vonnegut
"We are all guilty of the same failures and weaknesses."Saul Bellow
"Justice is always the loser in war."Joseph Heller
"Justice delayed is justice denied, but justice rushed is often wrong."Joseph Heller
"An act of violence by a private citizen is only of importance if it is also an act of imagination."Norman Mailer
"The world does not reward virtue, it punishes it."Norman Mailer
"The true measure of any society is how it treats its weakest."William S. Burroughs
"Who is the enemy that knows what must be done"Allen Ginsberg
"Justice is the highest calling"Allen Ginsberg
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class."Kurt Vonnegut
"Justice is a concept invented by the weak to control the strong."Joseph Heller
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Joseph Heller
"Justice must be pursued relentlessly."William S. Burroughs
"Justice is the art of giving each person exactly what they deserve."Norman Mailer
"Justice requires that we see the humanity in those we oppose."Norman Mailer
"If America is going to survive, it has got to understand that diversity is a strength"Allen Ginsberg
"America will be judged not by what we have but by what we do"Allen Ginsberg
"What is a country with no souls to inhabit it?"William S. Burroughs
"Loyalty to a person rather than to a principle is the fundamental corruption."William S. Burroughs
"Justice is the foundation of a just society."William Carlos Williams
"America is doing us a gray injustice."Jack Kerouac
"Justice is the foundation of all virtue."Hart Crane
"Justice delayed is justice denied."Hart Crane
"Justice requires both compassion and accountability"Allen Ginsberg
"Natives of poverty, children of malheur, the man-shadows and the woman-shadows, must see their images reflected in the social order."Wallace Stevens