Robert Bork Quotes

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

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

Any surplus is immoral.

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

If you think spreading money around by force seems like an odd definition of fairness, you're not alone.

There is no justice among men.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Economic issues are just as much moral issues as social issues.

A man who dies … rich, lies disgraced.

The advantages and privileges which have hitherto enjoyed by the few shall be far more widely shared by the many.

Civil Propriety is the Curse, is manifest thus, Those that Buy and Sell Land, and are landlords, have got it either by Oppression, or Murther, or Theft; and all landlords lives in the breach of the Seventh and Eighth Commandements, Thous shalt not steal, nor kill.

When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example of the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

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

…sharing out of the goods of others is the theft under the banner of equality.

What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

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

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.