Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

Leonard Peltier

My continued incarceration has served some good purposes. My defense committee has served as a training ground for other organizers in their defense of freedom and justice.

Lactantius

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

Lactantius

The whole point of justice consists precisely in our providing for others through humanity what we provide for our own family through affection.

Kweisi Mfume

Too often people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, never taking a principled stand. True justice will never come until those who are not injured are just as indignant as those who are

Vanna Bonta

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.

Sophocles

There are times when even justice brings harm with it.

Sophocles

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

Sophocles

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

Sophocles

Thou shalt not ration justice.

Sophocles

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Starhawk

Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.

Soren Kierkegaard

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

Marco Rubio

When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that`s not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.

Marcus Aurelius

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.

Marcus Aurelius

Let there be freedom from perturbations with respect to the things which come from the external cause; and let there be justice in the things done by virtue of the internal cause, that is, let there be movement and action terminating in this, in social acts, for this is according to thy nature.

Marcus Aurelius

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disposition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

Marcus Aurelius

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Thomas a Kempis

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

Natalie Portman

It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

Tayari Jones

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

Tony Abbott

It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.

Tony Blair

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could

Thucydides

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

Thucydides

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Robert A. Heinlein

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

Thomas Watson

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

Steven Wright

I was born by Caesarian section . . . but not so you'd notice. It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the window.

Steven Seagal

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Tom Coburn

I asked Chief Justice John Roberts about this definition of life - you know, what is life? The Supreme Court can't figure it out or doesn't want us to figure it out; the fact that we know that there is no life if there's no heartbeat and brainwaves.

Tim Kaine

Criminal justice is about respecting the law and being respected by the law so there is a fundamental respect issue here.