George R. R. Martin Quotes

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

Effective action is always unjust.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape

The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.

Charity and philanthropy are not justice.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

Every serious moral philosophy, every decent legal system and every ethical organization cares deeply about intention…It’s an elementary aspect of parenting, friendship, courtship and marriage. A hallmark of injustice is indifference to intention. Most of what is cruel, intolerant, stupid and misjudged in life stems from that indifference.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity, the Christian love that it would take.

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

Let me say the good are often punished unfairly.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

Life is not fair... Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

In other words, let's face it: Life is basically unfair. But even in a situation that's unfair, I think it's possible to seek out a kind of fairness. Of course, that might take time and effort. And maybe it won't seem to be worth all that. It's up to each individual to decide whether or not it is.

People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

Not even God can make something fair out of what is intrinsically unfair. Only one thing can be done. Something must break through the crust of unfairness and create a chance for a new fairness. Only forgiveness can make the breakthrough.