Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Addison

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

Josefina Vazquez Mota

In terms of justice, the most important thing is not to be part of organized crime.

Jose Marti

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

Jose Marti

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Jose Marti

The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

Jonathan Swift

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.

Kevin Rudd

Education is both a tool of social justice as well as a fundamental driver of economic development.

Kevin Bacon

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

Kenneth Clark

Over and above the political, economic, sociological, and international implications of racial prejudices, their major significance is that they place unnecessary burdens upon human beings.

Khalil Gibran

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

Jonathan Swift

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

Napoleon Hill

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” - Jimi Hendrix, “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lucas Papademos

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

Lord Chesterfield

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

Lord Chesterfield

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Majora Carter

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Mahatma Gandhi

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

Mahatma Gandhi

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

Oscar Arias

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

Origen

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Origen

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Omar Khayyam

Justice is the soul of the universe.

Ellen G. White

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Epicurus

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Hazel Scott

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

Ho Chi Minh

The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny.

Helen Reddy

If I have to, I can do anything.

Henry Fielding

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Henry Fielding

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.