Benjamin B. Ferencz quotes

“There can be no peace without justice, no justice without law and no meaningful law without a Court to decide what is just and lawful under any given circumstance.”
-- Benjamin B. Ferencz

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“What has happened here [aftermath of 9/11] is not war in its traditional sense. This is clearly a crime against humanity. War crimes are crimes which happen in war time. There is a confusion there. This is a crime against humanity because it is deliberate and intentional killing of large numbers of civilians for political or other purposes. That is not tolerable under the international systems. And it should be prosecuted pursuant to the existing laws.”
-- Benjamin B. Ferencz

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“Nuremberg taught me that creating a world of tolerance and compassion would be a long and arduous task. And I also learned that if we did not devote ourselves to developing effective world law, the same cruel mentality that made the Holocaust possible might one day destroy the entire human race.”
-- Benjamin B. Ferencz

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“I prefer law to war under all circumstances.”
-- Benjamin B. Ferencz

Source : "Crimes Against Humanity Benjamin Ferencz Interview". Interview with Katy Clark, ratical.org. September 19, 2001.

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“People get discouraged. They should remember, from me, it takes courage not to be discouraged.”
-- Benjamin B. Ferencz

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“War makes murderers out of otherwise decent people. All wars, and all decent people.”
-- Benjamin B. Ferencz

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“Well, if it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don't even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That's insane.”
-- Benjamin B. Ferencz

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“I don't think I'm an idealist. I'm a realist. And I see the progress. The progress has been remarkable. Look at the emancipation of woman in my lifetime. You're sitting here as a female. Look what's happened to the same-sex marriages. To tell somebody a man can become a woman, a woman can become a man, and a man can marry a man, they would have said, "You're crazy." But it's a reality today. So the world is changing. And you shouldn't - you know - be despairing because it's never happened before. Nothing new ever happened before.”
-- Benjamin B. Ferencz

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“There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, 'You must read this.' I've always wanted to write a book like that, with the sense that you are contributing to the discourse in middle America, a discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.”

Source : "Exclusive: Howard Gordon Talks About His New Series HOMELAND and AWAKE, Plus Progress on the 24 Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 2, 2011.

“What makes sense is not law, syntax, rules or structure”

“Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.”

Source : Quoted in James Parton, Life and Times of Aaron Burr, 7th ed. (1858)

“There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.”

“How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.”

“Labor is the law of happiness.”

“Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.”

Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.

“Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.”

“Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.”

“Study the Constitution. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislatures, and enforced in courts of justice.”