Justice Quotes

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

We don't want apartheid liberalized. We want it dismantled. You can't improve something that is intrinsically evil.

Any pain entailed in repentance will always be far less than the suffering required to satisfy justice for unresolved transgression.

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.

Decide justice is worthy and refuse to go away.

The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God’s justice.

Men, in general, seem to employ their reason to justify prejudices...rather than to root them out.

My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

If the church does not identify with the marginalized, it will itself be marginalized. This is God's poetic justice.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Only the rich can get justice, only the poor cannot escape it.

It's time for those of us who have a voice to speak out for life, for love and for justice using the same media we've used throughout our careers.

In the struggle for justice, the only reward is the opportunity to be in the struggle. You can't expect that you're going to have it tomorrow. You just have to keep working on it.

War crushes with bloody heel all justice, all happiness, all that is Godlike in man. In our age there can be no peace that is not honorable; there can be no war that is not dishonorable.

Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

If laws are unjust, they must be continually broken until they are altered.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

The glory of science is, that it is freeing the soul, breaking the mental manacles, getting the brain out of bondage, giving courage to thought, filling the world with mercy, justice, and joy.

Unfortunately, the American justice system is just riddled with lies and inconsistencies.

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.

Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.

Without food, man at most can live but a few weeks; without it all other components of social justice are meaningless.