Chris Hedges Quotes

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

In politics, there is a distinction, unknown to science, between Truth and Justice.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

I believe in justice and truth, without which there would be no basis for human hope

There is no power without justice.

Justice of right is always to take precedence over might.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

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.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.

Plain truth, backed up by neither power or money, has no chance.

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

There are times … when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

There will be justice," said Brutha. "If there is no justice, there is nothing.

Justice remains the greatest power on earth. To that tremendous power alone will we submit.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.