Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Eliot

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Mercy surpasses justice.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

Francois Mitterrand

To every reversal of people's soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. ''Tell me, according to what you judge and I'll tell you who you are." [...] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

George W. Bush

I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want - I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.

George W. Bush

The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the....the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.

George W. Bush

We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

George W. Bush

Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.

Frederick Douglass

In regard to the colored people, there is always more that is benevolent, I perceive, than just, manifested towards us. What I ask for the negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Frederick Douglass

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Frederick Buechner

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

Fannie Lou Hamer

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.

Fannie Lou Hamer

When I liberate others, I liberate myself.

Francis Bacon

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Francis Bacon

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Jeff Sessions

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

Godfrey Reggio

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

Giulio Andreotti

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

Gregory David Roberts

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

Hugo Chavez

Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can not be transcended through capitalism itself; it must be done through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.

Howard Zinn

The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some kind of interest, whether economic or political or racial, or national or sexual.

Howard Zinn

I will try not to overlook the cruelties that victims inflict on one another as they are jammed together in the boxcars of the system. I don’t want to romanticize them. But I do remember (in rough paraphrase) a statement I once read: “The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Howard Zinn

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Hosea Ballou

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

Hosea Ballou

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

Horace

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Horace

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

Guy Burgess

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.