John Kirk Quotes

I've always been interested in justice. I think what is happening to the Palestinians represents the ultimate injustice. I also hate bullies and the effect of them, the way people side with them out of fear. The Israelis are the schoolyard bullies, with England and the United States siding with them.

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

Knowing as we do that American laws were not enacted for the Indian, it would be tyrannical and unjust to declare Oshkosh a malicious offender against rules which the same laws presume he could not have previously known.

Too many things that happen in this country give the impression that our system is blind in the right eye.

… neither the sanctions of international law nor the justice of a cause can be depended upon for a fair settlement of differences, when they come into conflict with a strong political necessity on the one side opposed to comparative weakness on the other.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

Recalling an old magistrate's words to a young attorney, The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just's umbrella.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Nothing is fair in this world. You might as well get that straight right now

God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

Life isn't fair," he said, in his undisguised voice, and for once the Baudelaire orphans agreed with every word the man said.

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

One of the best ways to achieve justice is to expose injustice.

While we try to amass wealth, make piles of money, get hold of the land as our real property, overtop one another in riches, we have palpably cast off justice, and lost the common good. I should like to know how any man can be just, who is deliberately aiming to get out of someone else what he wants for himself.

Nobody wants justice.

It's not fair," I said. "It's just so goddamned unfair." "The world," he said, "is not a wishgranting factory.

It is better to protest than to accept injustice.

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

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

It's the same in real life: Notorious murderers get off scot-free and live happily all their lives, while good people die - sometimes the very best people. That's the way of the world.

There are unjust laws as there are unjust men.