6 Quotes by Michael Walzer

Justice is relative to social meanings. A given society is just if its substantive life is lived in a certain way, in a way that is faithful to the shared understandings of the members.

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

First oppression is made into an excuse for terrorism, and then terrorism is made into an excuse for oppression.

We are not usually philosophical in moments of crisis; most often, there is no time.

In his reflections on rebellion, Albert Camus argues that one cannot kill unless one is prepared to die.11 But that argument does not seem to apply to soldiers in battle, where the whole point is to kill while avoiding getting killed. And yet there is a wider sense in which Camus is right. Just.