A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.
~By Meister Eckhart ~
Greed is the inventor of injustice as well as the current enforcer.
~By Julian Casablancas ~
Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Pope John Paul II not only visited Nigeria twice but stood by the country in its fight against dictatorship and injustice.
~By Olusegun Obasanjo ~
As you suggested I have in the following disputed certain passages, trusting you will do me the justice either to modify the same or add a note in the new edition stating that I dispute,' etc.
~By Denis Kearney ~
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
~By Georg Simmel ~
We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.
~By Anita Hill ~
In fact, in 2002, the Secretary of Defense authorized such support on a reimbursable basis to organizations formerly components of the Department of Justice and Department of the Treasury and currently components of the Department of Homeland Security.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'
~By Mickey Rooney ~
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 ~
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
~By Rudolf Otto ~
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
~By Laurie Anderson ~
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
~By Karl Rove ~
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
~By Frederick Douglass ~
We can today open wide the history of their administrations and point with pride to every act, and challenge the world to point out a single act stained with injustice to the North, or with partiality to their own section.
~By Robert Toombs ~
There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.
~By Stephen Spender ~
Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
~By Mary Frances Berry ~
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
~By Bill Cosby ~
There is a time when even justice brings harm.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.
~By Lois Capps ~
The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.
~By Jeff Sessions ~
I've been waiting 13 years for justice.
~By Curtis Sliwa ~
My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.
~By Bill Scott ~
If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
No one could, therefore, rely on the law, and justice no longer existed.
~By William Waller ~
The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
~By Sallust ~
If this work can contribute in any way toward proving this, and at the same time arouse the conscience of the American people to a demand for justice to every citizen, and punishment by law for the lawless, I shall feel I have done my race a service.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.
~By Julian Bond ~
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
~By Julia Ward Howe ~
I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.
~By Tony Campolo ~
There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
~By Epicurus ~
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
~By Adam Smith ~
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.
~By Sam Sheppard ~
Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.
~By Ian Smith ~
And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.
~By Eyvind Johnson ~
That justice should be administered between men, it is necessary that testimonies of fact be alleged; and that witnesses should apprehend themselves greatly obliged to discover the truth, according to their conscience, in dark and doubtful cases.
~By Isaac Barrow ~
We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.
~By Sibel Edmonds ~
Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
~By Sandra Day O'Connor ~
You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
~By Bono ~
I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence.
~By Thomas Erskine ~
Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
~By Natan Sharansky ~
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
Three simple words - freedom, justice and honesty. These sum up what the Liberal Democrats stand for.
~By Charles Kennedy ~
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 ~
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
~By Aeschylus ~
Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.
~By Tran Duc Luong ~
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
~By Saint Augustine ~
The fight for justice against corruption is never easy. It never has been and never will be. It exacts a toll on our self, our families, our friends, and especially our children. In the end, I believe, as in my case, the price we pay is well worth holding on to our dignity.
~By Frank Serpico ~
Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.
~By William Blum ~
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
~By Martin Luther ~
I say that justice is truth in action.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.
~By Ivo Andric ~
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
~By James Callaghan ~
Justice is incidental to law and order.
~By J. Edgar Hoover ~
Once I should have been, if not satisfied, partially, at least, contented with suffrage for the intelligent and those who have been soldiers; now I am convinced that universal suffrage is demanded by sound policy and impartial justice.
~By Salmon P. Chase ~
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 ~
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.
~By Glenn Beck ~
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 ~
I think you're going to find out that westerns will be coming back. It's Americana, it's part of our history, the cowboy, the cattle drive, the sheriff, the fight for law, order and justice. Justice will always prevail as far as I'm concerned.
~By Clayton Moore ~
I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
~By Joel Osteen ~
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 ~
The goal of the EU is to form a region of freedom, security and justice. Freedom in this connection cannot be just the freedom of the strong, but it must be combined with fraternity and equality.
~By Tarja Halonen ~
The big tyrants never face justice.
~By George Galloway ~
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 ~
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
~By Epicurus ~
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 ~
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
~By Barry Goldwater ~
I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.
~By Donna Leon ~
I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.
~By Tahar Ben Jelloun ~
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.
~By King Hussein I ~
What our men and women in uniform are doing is providing for the Iraqi people and other surrounding nations the opportunity to see, to taste and to experience the democracy that equals freedom and ultimately justice.
~By Robin Hayes ~
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
What did our nation ever do to provoke these madly vicious enemies? What is seen as injustice in one place is seen as just requital in the other.
~By Mary Douglas ~
It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
~By Carl T. Rowan ~
Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.
~By Friedrich Ebert ~
The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
~By Ann Landers ~
On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful.
~By Nelson A. Miles ~
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces of right and wrong, truth and error, justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy.
~By Kelly Miller ~
Justice deferred is justice denied.
~By Diane Watson ~
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
~By Rod McKuen ~
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 human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
~By Edmund Burke ~
He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
~By Plato ~
The essence of justice is mercy.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
~By Imran Khan ~
The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
~By Ralph Neas ~
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.
~By Thomas Paine ~
But I can tell you what your folly and injustice will compel us to do. It will compel us to be free from your domination, and more self-reliant than we have been.
~By John H. Reagan ~
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