If there is no truth, there is no injustice  

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"I shall be travelling in what follows a somewhat winding road, and so here is my central thesis. If there is no truth, there is no injustice. Stated less simplistically, if truth is wholly relativized or internalized to particular discourses or language games or social practices, there is no injustice. The victims and protesters of any putative injustice are deprived of their last and often best weapon, that of telling what really happened. They can only tell their story, which is something else. Morally and politically, therefore, anything goes."--Solidarity in the Conversation of Humankind (1995) Norman Geras

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"If there is no truth, there is no injustice" is a dictum by Norman Geras found in “Language, Truth and Justice” (1995). It is an attack on Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989) by Richard Rorty which argues that truth is contingent.


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