Quotes about justice
justice heaven dismayed
That was the justice of Heaven. I trust that you are not dismayed. Cassandra Clare
justice charity
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom. Gottfried Leibniz
justice arrogance freedom-of-speech
With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English? James Crawford
justice done
Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed. J. B. Morton
justice earth human-life
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning. Immanuel Kant
justice murder miserable
If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.
justice rewards merit
The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
justice violence source
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence Jean-Paul Sartre
justice may conservative
There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice. George Will
justice soul cruelty
The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others. Jenkin Lloyd Jones
justice long people
Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people . Jefferson Davis
justice unjust extremes
Justice in the extreme is often unjust. Jean Racine
justice injustice extremes
Extreme justice is often injustice.
justice melting stuff
I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. Jesse Jackson
justice lazy unemployed
When blacks are unemployed, they are considered lazy and apathetic. When whites are unemployed, it's considered a depression.
justice isms capitalism
Capitalism without capital is just an ism.
justice people together
It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.
justice each-day layers
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice. Jean Giraudoux
justice needs middle-east
Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes. James Buchan
justice experience innocence
Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it. James A. Baldwin
justice slave born
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.
justice income economic
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice. Garet Garrett
justice fairness criminal-justice
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. Francis Bacon
justice humanity may
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations. George Washington
justice honor safe
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
justice religion doe
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
justice bars spirit
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience. George Santayana
justice heaven principles
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.
justice fighter peace-and-justice
I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out. George McGovern
justice-equality doctrine would-be
The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... "Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, "never make the unequal equal". Friedrich Nietzsche
justice people groups
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. Franz Boas
justice measurement accounts
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative. Jeanette Winterson
justice people half
We're half the people; we should be half the Congress. Jeannette Rankin