Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
~By Plato ~
And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
~By Ulrich Beck ~
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~By Plato ~
This is always a pain because it's injustice too and so my response to it, I tell you what I am more surprised or horrified at Jews who forget to be humanists than I am at anybody else.
~By Janet Suzman ~
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
~By Jules Renard ~
And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.
~By Phyllis Diller ~
Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.
~By Matthew McGrory ~
Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.
~By Theodore C. Sorensen ~
Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of torrents, nor demolished by the force of armies.
~By Joseph Addison ~
I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.
~By David Zucker ~
But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.
~By Isaiah Berlin ~
In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.
~By Doc Hastings ~
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
~By Joseph Heller ~
Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.
~By Voltaire ~
All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.
~By John Ashcroft ~
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
~By Pauline Kael ~
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
~By Karl Kraus ~
Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do.
~By Mario Monti ~
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.
~By Robert Walpole ~
If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes.
~By Jacques-Louis David ~
One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.
~By Ron Jaworski ~
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
~By Mandy Patinkin ~
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
~By Aeschylus ~
If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
~By Helen Clark ~
To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
~By Luigi Barzini ~
The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.
~By Lee Greenwood ~
And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.
~By Alfred Doblin ~
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and injustices will all be left outside the door, then there is no good reason why talks cannot take place in an appropriate atmosphere.
~By Martin McGuinness ~
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
~By Epicurus ~
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
~By Earl Warren ~
In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
~By Khalil Gibran ~
We've begun to get justice.
~By Charles Evers ~
Anarchy may await America, due to the daily injustices suffered by the people.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.
~By Abbie Hoffman ~
Christians should emphatically be campaigning for justice for the poor - but the Church is not a campaign.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
~By Charles Rangel ~
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
~By Hosea Ballou ~
I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story, you get to see the good people live happily ever after.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
~By Isabel Allende ~
Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.
~By Andrew Cohen ~
Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
~By H. Rap Brown ~
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.
~By Benjamin Cardozo ~
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
I think and hope and believe that the Japanese government and the people of Japan will be happy and content with the progress of justice in this case and that it will not become a great issue in the future.
~By Howard Baker ~
The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.
~By Birch Bayh ~
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
~By Paul Tournier ~
I was very excited about the idea that I could be an idealist, that I could be my age, the eager beaver who had hope in the justice system and the one who gets disappointed just like the audience.
~By Elisabeth Rohm ~
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
~By Marc Morial ~
Those who today still feel a sense of impotence can do something: they can support Amnesty International. They can help it to stand up for freedom and justice.
~By Peter Benenson ~
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.
~By Helen Keller ~
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.
~By Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
~By Francis Bacon ~
The place of justice is a hallowed place.
~By Francis Bacon ~
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.
~By Glenn Beck ~
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
~By Stephen Spender ~
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
~By William Penn ~
The same tools we need to use to keep this country safe by bringing terrorists to justice, because I guarantee you, if they have the opportunity and the means, they will take American lives.
~By Todd Tiahrt ~
The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
~By Benazir Bhutto ~
As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.
~By Charles Rangel ~
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
~By Nigella Lawson ~
Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
If you want peace work for justice.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.
~By Demosthenes ~
God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
~By John Donne ~
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
~By Horace Walpole ~
There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
~By Kurt Huber ~
Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
~By John Calvin ~
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Justice in the extreme is often unjust.
~By Jean Racine ~
On the justice of the cause of Prince Edouard, adding insurances of greatest sincerity to help it and support it and give him on all occasions of the marks of the same feelings as I have for the King his father.
~By Henry Benedict Stuart ~
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
~By John Cornyn ~
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
~By Huston Smith ~
The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well.
~By Ernest Istook ~
When you look at what I've done here, you see a consistent theme of reforms which is not driven by any dogma from across the water, but a radical agenda to make sure Northern Ireland's people enjoy equal opportunities, driven by the values of social justice.
~By Peter Hain ~
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
~By Aeschylus ~
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.
~By Clarence Darrow ~
It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
~By Bugs Baer ~
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