“I don't often want to speak. I try to be a reasonable person and to be diplomatic, but you go to that place and you see the settlements, you see what has happened to the land that was owned by the Palestinians. I have often said to my Jewish friends: "Please just remember where you come from. Remember Yahweh, who said to the Israelites, 'Treat the alien well with justice.'"” WantTryingWellsPersonsSaidRememberSpeakJusticeHappenedLandPleaseTreatsAliensReasonablePalestinianSettlementDiplomaticWhere You ComeYahwehJewish Friends Author:Desmond Tutu
“How far does one combine resistance to over-control with social justice, i.e. tolerable living for people in general? We are too selfish to be trusted, if left free, to give away enough to make people comfortable enough to give them a chance. Yet if all this is ordered for us, as to some extent it has to be, it so soon leads to tyranny. It is a very difficult problem. If only human beings had more pity, unselfishness, and justice and didn't need coercion to treat each other decently.” PeopleIfsNeedsGivingHumansDoeEnoughProblemLeftSocialDifficultJusticeChanceHuman BeingsCompassionComfortableTreatsSocial JusticeSelfishTyrannyResistancePityTrustedCoercionTolerableUnselfishnessDifficult Problems Author:Rose Macaulay
“You can't treat Russia like a guilty schoolboy who has to put a cross on a piece of paper to show he has done his homework. That kind of language is unacceptable.” KindDoneShowsPoliticsLanguageLeadershipJusticeEducationPiecesPolicyPaperEthicsCrossesTreatsTradeStrategyRussiaGuiltyIdeologyForeign PolicyDiplomacyCivilityHomework Author:Dmitry Peskov
“Many Westerners forget that when the Prophet spoke of four wives as the maximum allowable number, he had in mind a reduction to four as compared to the number then often prevailing; moreover, Mohammed specified that a man should acquire more than one wife only if he could treat them all with equal justice - obviously a difficult feat for even the most diligent man to achieve. In effect, then, the Prophet curtailed the number of wives.” IfsMenShouldMindDifficultJusticeForgetNumbersFourWifeAchieveEffectsEqualTreatsProphetAcquireSpokesMaximumReductionPrevailingFeatsDiligentWesternersEqual Justice Book:Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam Source: Maʼmūriyyat barȧ-yi vaṭanam
“mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.” IfsJusticeMankindCreationGeniusMercyTreatsIntelligentPropertySpeciesMercy Of GodJustice And Mercy Book:Watchers Source: Watchers
“In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice, we have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality.” UseRealityJusticeEnemyCasesGroupsNewsPercentTreatsMurderEverydayJournalismTargetReportersSpyTransmitImpunityStaggeringInsurgent Author:Mariane Pearl
“Men give us most rarely that which we really want, not favor, but - Justice. Nothing is easier than to coax them to pet us like children, nothing more difficult than to persuade them to treat us like responsible human beings.” MenWantGivingHumansChildrenDifficultJusticeHuman BeingsEasierTreatsResponsibleFavorsPet Book:The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures Source: The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures
“Our search for such [moral] principles can start with . . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.” IfsFirstsLittlesPersonsSeemsAsksGivenJusticeMoralPrinciplesNegativeTreatsAbsolutesCoreCommandAcknowledgeUnconditionalImperativesMoral PrinciplesCommand Not Author:Paul Tillich