Justice Quotes And Sayings

Quotes And Sayings About Justice

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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
~By Ralph Nader ~


God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
~By John Donne ~


A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.
~By Walter Savage Landor ~


A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
~By Grover Cleveland ~


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 ~


I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.
~By Mario Monti ~


It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.
~By Bugs Baer ~


Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
~By Warren E. Burger ~


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 ~


While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.
~By Pat Brown ~


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 ~


You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.
~By Richard Burton ~


I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.
~By Pope Gregory VII ~


The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.
~By Guy Burgess ~


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 ~


Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
~By Edmund Burke ~


I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.
~By Fred Thompson ~


Justice is revenge.
~By Saad Hariri ~


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 ~


Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.
~By Emmeline Pankhurst ~


Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.
~By Anselm of Canterbury ~


Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?
~By Lillian Hellman ~


I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.
~By Birch Bayh ~


The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
~By William Makepeace Thackeray ~


The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
~By Cliff Stearns ~


It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
~By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ~


Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.
~By Breyten Breytenbach ~


They still don't want to admit to the world that this isn't the best and the fairest and most equal justice system. And that they are guilty of railroading people into jail. They don't want to, or never will, admit these things.
~By Leonard Peltier ~


If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.
~By King Solomon ~


The world is neither wise nor just, but it makes up for all its folly and injustice by being damnably sentimental.
~By Thomas Huxley ~


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 ~


For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~


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 ~


The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
~By Plato ~


Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.
~By Lewis Thompson Preston ~


The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
~By Bobby Scott ~


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 ~


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 ~


What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
~By Jean-Paul Sartre ~


He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
~By Plato ~


We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.
~By Friedrich August von Hayek ~


I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.
~By George Mason ~


My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
~By John H. Johnson ~


I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
~By Ted Olson ~


Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.
~By Anna Lindh ~


But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
~By Abdullah Ahmad Badawi ~


Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.
~By Herb Kohl ~


Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
~By Samuel Butler ~


I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
~By Elliot Richardson ~


Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~


I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.
~By Simon Cowell ~


In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
~By Charles Dickens ~


I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.
~By Michael Bennett ~


Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
~By Ada Cambridge ~


Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.
~By Susan Faludi ~


I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.
~By Paddy Ashdown ~


We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~


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 ~


For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
~By B. R. Ambedkar ~


The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.
~By Blaise Pascal ~


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 ~


I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.
~By Glenn Beck ~


It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.
~By Cat Stevens ~


I think Ellenor is embarrassed and ashamed and has devoted all of her energy to the law and to helping other people get justice because it's too difficult for her to face her own struggle for justice.
~By Camryn Manheim ~


The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
~By Jacob Bronowski ~


My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
~By Warren Christopher ~


Oh, justice is what you're threatened with.
~By Thomas Cromwell ~


Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
~By Voltaire ~


One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
~By Zack de la Rocha ~


There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
~By Edmund Burke ~


I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
~By Harold H. Greene ~


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 is a terrible but necessary thing.
~By Jessamyn West ~


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 ~


What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.
~By Peter MacKay ~


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 ~


To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.
~By Stephen Breyer ~


Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.
~By Alan Dershowitz ~


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 ~


There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~


Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.
~By Mandy Patinkin ~


It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~


All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
~By Alice Walker ~


Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
~By A. Philip Randolph ~


Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I'm going to be governor.
~By Bill Scott ~


Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.
~By Robert Green Ingersoll ~


There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~


If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.
~By Amos Oz ~


Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.
~By Leonard Cohen ~


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 ~


Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~


The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
~By Sargent Shriver ~


But you will understand by yourselves that the matter applies equally well to the organization of the officials of justice, of administrative officials, etc; these are likewise organized instruments of power in certain societies.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~


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 ~


Justice is a whore that won't let herself be stiffed, and collects the wages of shame even from the poor.
~By Karl Kraus ~


Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
~By Learned Hand ~


The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.
~By John Bruton ~


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 ~


Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
~By Maximilien Robespierre ~


She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
~By Fay Wray ~

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