Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Rawls

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

John Rawls

A society regulated by a public sense of justice is inherently stable.

John Rawls

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

James J. Corbett

Individuals can resist injustice, but only a community can do justice.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Unlike proportionality, progression provides no principle which tells us what the relative burden of different persons ought to be the argument based on the presumed justice of progression provides no limitation, as has often been admitted by its supporters, before all incomes above a certain figure are confiscated, and those below left untaxed.

Friedrich August von Hayek

[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.

Friedrich Schiller

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

George Farquhar

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

Jon Ronson

Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

Jon Kyl

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

Jon Krakauer

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

This is so unfair to you. (Ryssa) Life isn’t about being fair. It’s not about justice. It’s all about endurance and how much we can suffer through. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Precedent goes in support of justice.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

Terence

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

N. T. Wright

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

N. T. Wright

The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.

The justice minister should have thought of this before and had everything ready and set to go,

The truth is out and I want justice.

The truth has to out to do justice for two Chen families.

Henry Hyde

These are not trivial matters. These are not partisan matters. These are matters of justice, the justice that each of you has taken a solemn oath to serve in this trial,

This is a justice issue: You can't have 11 million people being vulnerable and exploited.

This is a complicated transaction. It's in response to the Justice Department's concerns.

Eric Holder

Operation Fast and Furious was flawed in concept and flawed in execution. The tactics used in this operation violate Department of Justice policy and should never have been used.

Eric Hoffer

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Max Lucado

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

A person who's dispensing justice for that period of time, he's going to have influence.

Edmund Stoiber

Perhaps there is a piece of universal justice here,

a demonstration of the triumph of justice over terrorism.

The most important thing in the long run in the United States was the appointment of two new justices to the Supreme Court.

Gerry Adams

Now is the time for peace, justice and rebuilding,

Richard Riordan

a big step on the road to justice.