Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hazel Scott

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

Ho Chi Minh

The great victory of April 30 represents the triumph of the entire nation, of justice over brutality and of humanity over tyranny.

Helen Reddy

If I have to, I can do anything.

Henry Fielding

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

Henry Fielding

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every offense is avenged on earth.

Khalil Gibran

...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

Jonathan Swift

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

Napoleon Hill

I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects.

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

Oscar Arias

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

Origen

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Origen

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

Omar Khayyam

Justice is the soul of the universe.

Mason Cooley

We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

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.

Malcolm X

Growing is the result of learning.

Malcolm X

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

Jacob Bronowski

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

George Bancroft

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

James Madison

People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit.