Jenny Holzer Quotes

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

The chief agent responsible for promoting the passions at the expense of justice turns out to be wealth.

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

One man's larceny is another's just distribution of goods.

A man who dies … rich, lies disgraced.

What good are we doing them in China if we are just making money off them but they are still denied freedom.

There is no equality between that which is right and that which is wrong.

… a creed of greed

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

You don't have to love animals to recognize that it is immoral and unjust to exploit them. But if you do love animals, but you continue to participate in their exploitation, you need to rethink your idea of what love means.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.

I insist that the commandment, "Thou shalt not steal," applies as much to the monopolist as to the highwayman.

.... the forces of greed

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

I want to make money but not if it involves exploitation.

Fiddler is keenly aware that justice and law don't necessarily equate.

I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

Money makes everybody evil when you think about it.

You should not be taking advantage of anybody.

Should there be double standards in the world? Maybe.

When you're talking about villainy, then you're automatically circling around to talk about justice.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

No man should so act as to make a gain out of the ignorance of another.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

Nothing really immoral is ever permanently popular.