Quotes about justice
justice requirements
Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature. Joseph Glanvill
justice fairy-tale fairy
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. Lauren Beukes
justice invisible ifs
If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them. John Kasich
justice firsts social-justice
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. Jules Michelet
justice littles noise
There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise. Jules Renard
justice victim peace-and-justice
Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace. Juan Manuel Santos
justice people forgiving
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. Karl Kraus
justice criminals human-nature
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
justice temples worship
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice. Julius Wellhausen
justice progress gaps
Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is. Paul Krugman
justice lasts ends
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. Martin Luther
justice only-love
there's no justice, there's only love. Marilyn French
justice
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.
justice important victim
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims. Nancy Grace
justice unjust social-justice
Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not. Matthew Fox
justice alive useless
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. Mary Wollstonecraft
justice sorrow tasks
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.
justice world charity
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
justice prejudice world
It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive. Martha Griffiths
justice-for-all liberty owners
In our pledge every day, we pledge one Nation under God with liberty and justice for all. Patrick J. Kennedy
justice people next
The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction. Patrick Leahy
justice decision sandra-day-o-connor
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor serves as a model Supreme Court justice, widely recognized as a jurist with practical values, a sense of the consequences of the legal decisions being made by the Supreme Court.
justice done sometimes
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
justice ease has-beens
All token Blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not yet begun to be solved, because pointing at us token Blacks eases consciences of millions, and this is dreadfully wrong. Leontyne Price
justice may homesick
It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated. Newt Gingrich
justice democracy cost
...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains. Noam Chomsky
justice doe development
Why does everyone take for granted that we don't learn to grow arms, but rather, are designed to grow arms? Similarly, we should conclude that in the case of the development of moral systems; there's a biological endowment which in effect requires us to develop a system of moral judgment and a theory of justice, if you like, that in fact has detailed applicability over an enormous range.
justice dollars rewards
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice Pat Roberts
justice mercy trump
Mercy trumps justice. Pat Robertson
justice people support
Tackling the issue of climate change presents us with an inflection point in human history - a climate justice revolution that separates development from fossil fuels, supports people in the most vulnerable situations to adapt, allows all people to take part, and, most importantly, realise their full potential. Mary Robinson
justice waiting storm
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal. Nicole Krauss
justice atmosphere way
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. Mary McCarthy
justice tennis habit
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.