Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katherine Boo

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

Katharine Hepburn

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

Joseph Glanvill

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

Lauren Beukes

The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't.

John Kasich

If the B2 is invisible, just announce you've built 100 of them and don't build them.

Lord Acton

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.

Lord Acton

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.” - Jimi Hendrix, “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

Lucas Papademos

Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.

Lord Chesterfield

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

Lord Chesterfield

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Majora Carter

Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects.

Mahatma Gandhi

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

Mahatma Gandhi

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

Jules Michelet

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Jules Renard

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.

Juan Manuel Santos

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.

Karl Kraus

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

Karl Kraus

Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

Julius Wellhausen

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.

Paul Krugman

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.

Haruki Murakami

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the Unitarians do, that he could attack them better with a greater approximation to plain theism. What distinguishes his heresy from anything like an Arian or Albigensian heresy is that, as it sprang up on the borders of Christendom, it could spread outwards to a barbaric world.

John Dryden

Whatever is, is in its causes just.

John Dryden

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

Jim Wallis

Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice.

Maura Tierney

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Maximilien Robespierre

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.

Maximilien Robespierre

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

Maximilien Robespierre

Terror is nothing more than justice, prompt, secure and inflexible.

Maya Angelou

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

Max Stirner

I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them?