Quotes about justice
justice forever brotherhood
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever. Marcus Tullius Cicero
justice glory virtue
Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.
justice injustice prison
Extreme justice is extreme injustice.
justice firsts limits
If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95! Kinky Friedman
justice trials victors
The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be. Margaret Thatcher
justice world want
I do not understand the unilateralists. If they hated nuclear weapons as much as I do they would want them down in the world as a whole. I am the true disarmer, I keep peace and freedom and justice with it.
justice wish belief
We intend freedom and justice to conquer. Yes, we do have a creed and we wish others to share it. But it is not part of our policy to impose our beliefs by force or threat of force.
justice soul demand
... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it. Margaret Deland
justice feminist degradation
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation, because in the degradation of women, the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source. Lucretia Mott
justice
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth. Louis Farrakhan
justice mind buchenwald
It is difficult for the American mind to adjust to the realization that the Rhetts and the Scarletts were as much monsters as the keepers of Buchenwald-they just dressed more attractively. Lorraine Hansberry
justice people support
Tackling the issue of climate change presents us with an inflection point in human history - a climate justice revolution that separates development from fossil fuels, supports people in the most vulnerable situations to adapt, allows all people to take part, and, most importantly, realise their full potential. Mary Robinson
justice waiting storm
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal. Nicole Krauss
justice atmosphere way
An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question. Mary McCarthy
justice tennis habit
A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.
justice pleasure ecstasy
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Mark Twain
justice dollars rewards
Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice Pat Roberts
justice mercy trump
Mercy trumps justice. Pat Robertson
justice unjust social-justice
Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not. Matthew Fox
justice alive useless
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless. Mary Wollstonecraft
justice sorrow tasks
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain must be obtained by their charms and weaknesses.
justice world charity
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
justice prejudice world
It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice.... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive. Martha Griffiths
justice want criminals
All we want is justice for John Crawford and everyone responsible for John Crawford's death should be held responsible, the criminal justice system refused to hold those accountable so the civil system must. Michael Wright
justice liberty veils
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
justice abortion decision
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.
justice people criminals
Our criminal justice system has swallowed up too many people I love. Michael K. Williams
justice ministry firsts
First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various states were dissolved I became Reich Minister without portfolio. Hans Frank
justice humanity may
The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations. George Washington
justice honor safe
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice.
justice religion doe
Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?
justice bars spirit
Society itself is an accident to the spirit, and if society in any of its forms is to be justified morally it must be justified at the bar of the individual conscience. George Santayana
justice heaven principles
In the Gospels, for instance, we sometimes find the kingdom of heaven illustrated by principles drawn from observation of this world rather than from an ideal conception of justice; ... They remind us that the God we are seeking is present and active, that he is the living God; they are doubtless necessary if we are to keep religion from passing into a mere idealism and God into the vanishing point of our thought and endeavour.