Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Moore

I was asked three times directly in the hearing before the board of the judiciary whether or not I would continue to acknowledge God if I were to resume my position as chief justice. And I said I would.

Rose Bird

The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

Starhawk

Systems don't change easily. Systems try to maintain themselves, and seek equilibrium. To change a system, you need to shake it up, disrupt the equilibrium. That often requires conflict.

Soren Kierkegaard

The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.

Sonia Sotomayor

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Sonia Sotomayor

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

Thomas B. Macaulay

The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.

Tim Cook

We pave the sunlit path toward justice together, brick by brick. This is my brick.

Thomas Jefferson

[A] spirit of justice and friendly accomodation...is our duty and our interest to cultivate with all nations.

Thomas Jefferson

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

Woody Allen

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope with it...

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

Will Durant

We teach more by what we are than by what we teach.

Sarah Rees Brennan

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

Saint Basil

She who has intentionally destroyed [the fetus] is subject to the penalty corresponding to a homicide. For us, there is no scrutinizing between the formed and unformed [fetus]; here truly justice is made not only for the unborn but also with reference to the person who is attentive only to himself/herself since so many women generally die for this very reason..

Saint Augustine

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

Saint Augustine

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Vandana Shiva

The environmental movement can only survive if it becomes a justice movement. As a pure environmental movement, it will either die, or it will survive as a corporate 'greenwash'. Anyone who's a sincere environmentalist can't stand that role.

Valerie Jarrett

We talked about the resources that the justice department has available to help them -- the technical assistance to ensure that we're diffusing situations, not encouraging them to spiral out of control.

Ujjwal Nikam

I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are maximum aggravating circumstances, which supersede the mitigating circumstances. And there is not a single mitigating circumstance which speaks in favor of the accused, and therefore all the accused deserve (the) death penalty.

Ugo Betti

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

Robert Mueller

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

Robert Nozick

Whatever arises from a just situation by just steps is itself just.

Robert Nozick

Justice in holdings is historical; it depends upon what actually has happened. We shall return to this point later.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Russell Baker

People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

Thomas Sowell

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

Richard M. Nixon

But more than anything else, we have learned that legal assistance for the poor, when properly provided, is one of the most constructive ways to help them help themselves.

Ricardo Lagos

Let's not interfere with justice... Let's let justice speak.

River Phoenix

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

Rob Bell

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.

Richard Pryor

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.