Quotes about justice
justice enemy treats
He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice. Robert Green Ingersoll
justice atheism culprit
Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
justice triumph
The triumph of justice is the only peace.
justice humanity and-love
This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.
justice chiefs admire
Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire. Rudy Giuliani
justice clinton national-security
Many reasonable prosecutors have come to the conclusion that they would have brought such a case [that Hillary Clinton was extremely careless in the handling of national security information]. I would have brought such a case and I would have won such a case. And I've prosecuted cases like that in my years in the Justice Department.
justice remember cia
I was in the Justice Department for three years. I remember my entry briefing by the CIA. I can tell the date of it. I remember my exit interview from the CIA. And I remember that "C" in parentheses meant confidential.
justice uniforms
Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct Samuel Johnson
justice political ironic
It may seem ironic that the judicial branch preserves its legitimacy through refraining from action on political questions. That concept was put forward best by Justice [Felix] Frankfurter, appointed by President [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt. Sam Brownback
justice political hearing
I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.
justice matter able
History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed. Robert Jensen
justice guilt trials
Guilt or innocence becomes irrelevant in the criminal trials as we flounder in a morass of artificial rules poorly conceived and often impossible [to apply]. Warren E. Burger
justice advice important
My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice. Warren Christopher
justice political atheism
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. Vladimir Lenin
justice suffering fairness
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer. William Blackstone
justice injustice justice-and-injustice
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. Samuel Butler
justice effort conflict
When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict. Wangari Maathai
justice imagination independence
The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit. Vartan Gregorian
justice social-justice 21st-century
I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century. Van Jones
justice social-justice progressive
I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
justice community suffering
Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
justice trying demand
We will not know our own injustice if we cannot imagine justice. We will not be free if we do not imagine freedom. We cannot demand that anyone try to attain justice and freedom who has not had a chance to imagine them as attainable. Ursula K. Le Guin
justice atheism spheres
There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue. William Godwin
justice moral duty
Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
justice tyranny
Peace without justice is tyranny William Allen White
justice our-society moral
We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. Sonia Sotomayor
justice people inspire
I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.
justice quiet rich
The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous. Thomas B. Macaulay
justice together bricks
We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick. Tim Cook
justice friendly spirit
[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations. Thomas Jefferson
justice gentleman dying
What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.
justice modesty found
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? Horace
justice spiders world
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me. Henry David Thoreau