Justice Quotes

If it were not for injustice, men would not know justice.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.

To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.

The patterns have become unmistakable and undeniable. ... We have to come to terms with some hard truths about race and justice in America.

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Justice of the world is in its creativity, in solving problems, in our activity and struggle. While I am alive there is the possibility to act, to strive for happiness, this is justice.

The Children's Justice Campaign reminds us of our sacred obligation as adults to raise ourselves into consciousness so that our children may thrive.

Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.

For a while I didn't have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward]

The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine.

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

For one crime which is expiated in prison ten thousand are committed thoughtlessly by those who condemn.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

I always felt from the beginning that you had to defend people you disliked and feared as well as those you admired.

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

Do all you have agreed to do, and do not encroach on other persons or their property.

The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

Justice extorts no reward, no kind of price; she is sought, therefore, for her own sake.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

We all say no to war, we are all for justice and peace. But sometimes in order to maintain peace, armed action is necessary. But we hope it won't be the case.

In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.

The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

I need to take toward a lot of things that will refine me and make me better suited for leading anyone out of any place of injustice to a place of justice.

We shall prepare the coffee of reconciliation through the filter of justice. Through reconciliation, streams of tears will come to our eyes.

O ye rich ones on earth! The poor in your midst are My trust; guard ye My trust, and be not intent only on your own ease.

Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos.

The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another.

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

Many men who transgress justice, honor appearance over reality.

When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.

If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.

I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.