The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Lack of justice creates conditions that extremists exploit to commit violence against innocents.
- In plain terms
- Unjust systems enable extremist violence.
- What can you take from it?
- Ensure justice to deter extremism.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What forms of justice most effectively reduce radicalization?
- How can societies rebuild trust after injustice?
Another view
Justice alone may not eliminate all drivers of extremism.
More from Hussein of Jordan
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
Permalink to quote #28 The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic. Peace, poverty, and backwardness cannot mix in…
Permalink to quote #30 Personality is reduced and deformed with depleted thoughts and stagnant mind.
Permalink to quote #27
Related quotes
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
Denis DiderotDenis Diderot quote #1 Then what is the answer? - Not to be deluded by dreams. To know that great civilizations have broken down into violence, and their tyrants come, many times bef…
Robinson JeffersRobinson Jeffers quote #10 For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indiff…
Robert F. KennedyRobert F. Kennedy quote #12