Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
~By William Godwin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
~By Dan Burton ~
Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
There is a point at which even justice does injury.
~By Sophocles ~
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 ~
Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
~By Anna Lindh ~
The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.
~By Bram Fischer ~
I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
~By Pope Gregory VII ~
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.
~By Christopher Darden ~
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 ~
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 ~
Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
~By Lakhdar Brahimi ~
Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
~By Emmeline Pankhurst ~
Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into international terrorism. Of that total, over half were convicted as a result of their actions.
~By Jo Bonner ~
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
~By Max Nordau ~
Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.
~By Mike DeWine ~
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice.
~By Karl Rove ~
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.
~By Maria W. Chapman ~
May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.
~By Mwai Kibaki ~
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
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 ~
I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.
~By Tony Campolo ~
The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.
~By Jules Renard ~
Therefore I feel that the aforementioned guiding principle must be modified to read: If you desire peace, cultivate justice, but at the same time cultivate the fields to produce more bread; otherwise there will be no peace.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
The situation in the region is flammable and may explode at any moment, because of the crucial events and because of the absence of justice in executing the international legitimacy resolutions, regarding the Israeli Arab cause and the oppression on Palestinians by Israelis.
~By Ali A. Saleh ~
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 ~
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
~By Daniel Webster ~
Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
~By Suzanne Fields ~
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 ~
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
~By Democritus ~
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
~By Earl Warren ~
I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
~By Thomas Paine ~
I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.
~By Ahmed Chalabi ~
It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
~By Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
~By Corazon Aquino ~
The Pledge of Allegiance says, "liberty and justice for all".
~By Pat Schroeder ~
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
~By William P. Leahy ~
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.
~By Charles Brenton Huggins ~
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 ~
Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
~By Walt Whitman ~
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
I think God's justice is making wrongs right.
~By Joel Osteen ~
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 ~
Injustice in the end produces independence.
~By Voltaire ~
Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
~By Plato ~
The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
~By Joe Barton ~
Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.
~By Henry Louis Gates ~
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
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 ~
Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
~By Larry Elder ~
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
~By Pauline Kael ~
Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
~By Abdoulaye Wade ~
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
~By Epicurus ~
It's now up to the full Senate to move swiftly to confirm John Roberts so he can assume his duties and responsibilities as chief justice when the Supreme Court begins its new term in a matter of weeks. We call on the Senate to confirm John Roberts without delay.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.
~By Lucretia Mott ~
The family is a court of justice which never shuts down for night or day.
~By Malcolm De Chazal ~
When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
~By Barney Frank ~
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 ~
When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.
~By Lady Gaga ~
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
There is no truly global justice.
~By Ralph Steadman ~
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
~By Oliver Goldsmith ~
When I say I do, the justice of the peace replies, 'I know, I know...'
~By Mickey Rooney ~
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 ~
In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?
~By Aeschylus ~
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
~By Sargent Shriver ~
It was OK for the media to pursue Former President Clinton year after year for lying about a private, consensual sexual affair, but we have five justices who committed one of the biggest crimes in American History, and it ceased to be a big story.
~By Vincent Bugliosi ~
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
~By Zebulon Pike ~
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap.
~By Joe Klein ~
Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
~By Alan Dershowitz ~
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.
~By Malcolm X ~
In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.
~By Alvaro Uribe Velez ~
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
~By Mary Frances Berry ~
Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
~By David E. Price ~
What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
We've got another nominee coming up, well qualified, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owens has a tremendous reputation, tremendous record, but they are already marshalling their forces to try to stop that nomination.
~By Jay Alan Sekulow ~
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
~By Louis Farrakhan ~
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 ~
Without food, man can live at most but a few weeks; without it, all other components of social justice are meaningless.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
~By Anton Chekhov ~
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
~By Davy Crockett ~
A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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