Quotes about justice
justice trying way
justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them. Gregory David Roberts
justice everyday mind
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. Hugo Chavez
justice support political
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
justice trying together
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.
justice cry poor
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.
justice sides
Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side. Hosea Ballou
justice bears burden
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
justice fidelity
Fidelity is the sister of justice. Horace
justice records world
If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.
justice people way
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. Guy Burgess
justice charity
Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom. Gottfried Leibniz
justice judging religion
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
justice stranger impartiality
Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial. George Bernard Shaw
justice soldier littles
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
justice long way
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
justice people world
If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.
justice shouting components
Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power. Gamal Abdel Nasser
justice age able
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime. Franz Kafka
justice kingdoms facts
Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning. George Eliot
justice mercy
Mercy surpasses justice. Geoffrey Chaucer
justice
Justice limps along, but gets there all the same. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
justice judging people
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. Francois Mitterrand
justice criticism balance
The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.
justice majority should
Justice, not the majority, should rule.
justice wish honest
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.
justice president hussein
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
justice people peaceful
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.
justice building nations
We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.
justice enemy done
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
justice people pity
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
justice pity benevolence
What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.
justice height depth
You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
justice mercy grammar
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things. Frederick Buechner