Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts

March 9, 2011

#2,920

Unjust inequality is not remedied by equality, but by just inequality.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 466

November 27, 2010

#2,307

In every historical situation there always arises somebody to defend in the name of liberty, humanity, or justice, the stupid opinion.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 374

November 17, 2010

#2,251

Reason, truth, justice, tend not to be man’s goals, but the names he gives to his goals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 365

October 7, 2010

#2,001

A paean to justice intoxicates us, because it seems to us to be an apology for the passion, just or unjust, which blinds us.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 325

August 2, 2010

#1,607

“Social justice” is the term used to claim anything to which we do not have a right.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 267

June 12, 2010

#1,258

One must learn to be partial without being unjust.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 218

June 6, 2010

#1,224

If we do not have hierarchies, we are eventually unjust with everything.
Even with what we were, or what we are.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 213

May 30, 2010

#1,180

Reason, Progress, and Justice are the three theological virtues of the fool.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 207

May 25, 2010

#1,153

We can beg for mercy.
But with what right do we demand justice?

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 203

May 16, 2010

#1,100

Justice has been one of the motors of history, because it is the name envy assumes in the mouth of the son contesting his parents' will.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 194

May 3, 2010

#1,022

To appeal not to God, but to His justice, fatally leads us to place Him before the tribunal of our prejudices.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 183

April 24, 2010

#967

The act of despoiling an individual of his goods is called robbery, when another individual does the despoiling.
And social justice, when an entire collective entity robs him.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 174

March 14, 2010

#718

Men can be divided between those who insist on taking advantage of today’s injustices and those who long to take advantage of tomorrow’s.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 131

February 20, 2010

#479

It is not possible to choose between injustice and disorder. They are synonyms.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 93

February 19, 2010

#467

Few men would put up with their lives if they did not feel like victims of chance.
To call justice injustice is the most popular of consolations.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 92

January 16, 2010

#54

The struggle against injustice that does not culminate in sanctity culminates in bloody upheavals.

Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección, p. 32