Justice Quotes

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Think on this doctrine, - that reasoning beings were created for one another's sake; that to be patient is a branch of justice, and that men sin without intending it.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.

Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

Our society and especially those who suffer injustice need to feel the impact of our commitment to justice and our advocacy for the vulnerable.

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

I am funny, but I'm not about funny... I'm about peace & justice.

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

God's justice and God's mercy do not quarrel with each other.

In everything that moves through the universe, I see my own body, and in everything that governs the universe, my own soul. All men are my brethren, and all things my companions.

I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon

Never get vengeance and justice mixed up.

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

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

Nothing is to be preferred before justice.

Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

The Bible has been used as a way of making us accept our situation, and not to bring enlightenment to the poor.

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

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.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

More law, less justice.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

Peace without justice is an impossibility.

Justice by any and all means necessary.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch is handed down from race to race and from age to age, and gains in brilliancy as it goes.