Julian Baggini Quotes

Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground.

When you see corruption, when you see injustice, you speak up. You don't just shut up and say it's none of my business.

A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.

'The Truth' is not meant to preach or point any fingers. It's meant to show that perhaps we should all avoid taking the moral high ground unless we have thought about things a bit more.

If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that and become a leader.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

No one is innocent, and people are allowed to criticize everyone.

My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.

I have left my home, my family, and my job, and I am raising my voice. To do otherwise would betray those who languish in prison. I can speak when so many cannot.

It is our lack of will that lies behind the continued denial of justice to Jean McConville. Yet there is something that we can do now for her and for ourselves before our silence turns us from spectators into passive accomplices. We can remember her.

When things are not fair, I speak my mind.

Where there are breaches of human rights, you need to speak out about it, no matter where it is.

I don't think rappers have a responsibility, but for me, I gotta say something. I can't just look at injustice and keep quiet.

The people of Butler Island spoke to me and demanded I bear witness for them.

The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply hide in the shadows and type; one must also stand in the light.

We live in a society where not everybody has intelligence, or understanding or is thinking of what's right and what's wrong.

I am not a philosopher, only frustrated by the development of the world we live in - and too stupid to keep my mouth shut when I see injustice.

As I grew older and got into the late teens and early 20s, I wanted to be a voice of the people. You know, getting locked up all the time and going through so much oppression and seeing it all around myself, I wanted to be a voice for it.

The people of the United States are not morally fit to survive.

I understand my mother and father and sister are in Turkey, but if I stop talking, who is going to speak for the thousands and thousands of innocent people in jail?

It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.