Justice Quotes

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

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.

Justice for all children is the high ideal in a democracy.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

Justice is restoring order, not furthering chaos.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power.

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s very important.

Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

Written laws are formulas in which we endeavor to express as concisely as possible that which, under such or such determined circumstances, natural justice demands.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

Equality! Where is it, if not in education? Equal rights! They cannot exist without equality of instruction.

For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all.

Teaching is the highest form of understanding.

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.

It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.

All restraints upon man's natural liberty, not necessary for the simple maintenance of justice, are of the nature of slavery, and differ from each other only in degree.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one.

Mere unorthodoxy or dissent from the prevailing mores is not to be condemned. The absence of such voices would be a symptom of grave illness to our society.

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

Terror is nothing else than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible.

Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.