Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patricia Highsmith

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

Patricia Highsmith

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Pablo Neruda

For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating.

Plato

Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

Plato

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

Plato

Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

Plato

To do injustice is the greatest of all evils.

Plato

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Plato

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

Plato

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Plato

Do not expect justice where might is right.

Plato

When there is crime in society, there is no justice.

Paulo Freire

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

Martin Seligman

To be a virtuous person is to display, by acts of will, all or at least most of the six ubiquitous virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance, and transcendence.

Martin Sheen

My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.

Max Lucado

Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.

Maura Tierney

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Mark Levin

The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

Mark Levin

Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt's internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.

Michael K. Williams

Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love.

Mason Cooley

Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.

Mary Livermore

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.

Mary Astell

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Michael Franti

When we all see justice, then we'll all see peace!

Michel Foucault

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The greatest enemy of justice is privilege.

Marge Piercy

There is no justice we don't make daily like bread and love.

Ted Olson

I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.

Ted Cruz

It is profoundly troubling when you have Supreme Court justices not following their judicial oath. And taking the role of policy makers and legislators, rather than being judges.

Theodore Parker

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.

Theodore Roosevelt

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Theodore Roosevelt

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.

Thales

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.