Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright
Garden of Tortures
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)
Octave Mirbeau (1848–1917) French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, novelist, and playwright
Garden of Tortures
Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont
Quoted in: Bernie Sanders kicks off 2020 campaign in Brooklyn, The New York Post, Khristina Narizhnaya and Eileen AJ Connelly, https://nypost.com/2019/03/02/bernie-sanders-kicks-off-2020-campaign-in-brooklyn/ (2 March 2019) <br class="br">2010s, 2019, March 2019
Karl Barth (1886–1968) Swiss Protestant theologian
Source: "Jesus Christ and the Movement for Social Justice" (1911), p. 19
“Justice is to social justice like a chair to an electric chair.”
Janusz Korwin-Mikke (1942) polish politician
“The Universe is on the side of Justice”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“It is not male hatred of women but male fear of women that is the great universal.”
Camille Paglia (1947) American writer
Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994), "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality", p. 79
“Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.”
Alfred de Zayas (1947) American United Nations official
Rights expert urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a more decisive role in peace-making (For International Day of Peace, Saturday 21 September 2013) http://dezayasalfred.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/rights-expert-urges-the-un-general-assembly-to-adopt-a-more-decisive-role-in-peace-making-for-international-day-of-peace-saturday-21-september-2013/. <br class="br">2013, 2013 - International Peace Day
“We are fighting to impose a higher social justice.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
The others are fighting to maintain the privileges of caste and class. We are proletarian nations that rise up against the plutocrats.
As quoted in “Soliloquy for ‘freedom’ Trimellone island”, on the Italian Island of Trimelone, journalist Ivanoe Fossani, one of the last interviews of Mussolini, March 20, 1945, from Opera omnia, vol. 32. Interview is also known as "Testament of Benito Mussolini, or Testamento di Benito Mussolini. Also published under “Mussolini confessed to the stars”, Publishing House Latinitas, Rome, 1952. (Intervista di Ivanoe Fossani, Soliloquio in “libertà” all'isola Trimellone, Isola del Trimellone, 20 marzo 1945)
1940s
“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe.”
Roger Zelazny book The Dream Master
He Who Shapes (1965)
Source: The Dream Master