Justice Quote by Josef Pieper

“Unfortunately, in the social as in the political world, the victims are such cowards that one cannot for long remain indignant with their executioners.”

— Marcel Proust

“...it is contrary to reason and experience to suppose that there can be any real check to brutality, consistent with leaving the victim still…

— John Stuart Mill

“We live in a world where one needs to choose - to be the victim or the executioner, and nothing else.”

— Albert Camus

“I saw what he was afraid of doing and I had sympathy, for however hard we fought, we must be beaten by empty bellies.…

— Richard Llewellyn

“My point is not to grieve for the victims and denounce the executioners. Those tears, that anger, cast into the past, deplete our moral…

— Howard Zinn

“Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.”

— Pierce Brown

“It is injustice to determine the brutality of an action because of the victim or the criminal.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Masses of men will almost feel that a certain amount of injustice ought to be inflicted on their betters, so as to make things…

— Anthony Trollope

“If the people must be ever fearful of death, then there will always be an executioner.”

— Lao Tzu

“Which executioner is the more humane, he who kills you in a few minutes or he who drags the life out of you in…

— Anton Chekhov

“Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.”

— J.S.B. Morse

“How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?”

— Anonymous