Josh Homme Quotes

Equal doesn't mean identical.

Sometimes the world didn't feel fair enough. Everything feels fair on the stage.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

There's never going to be a system that is fair to everyone.

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

The law is cruel.

I want justice to be so pervasive that it will be taken for granted, just as injustice is taken for granted today.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.

I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another.

Equality is a monster.

… the great equalizer.

Don’t conflate the morality of the death penalty with its unjust distribution among those who are guilty … Equality is less important, morally, than justice … We ought to distribute justice as equally as we can, even though we cannot distribute it perfectly.

All men are created equal. Some, it appears, are created a little more equal than others.

No one enjoys being equal.

… all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

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.

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

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.