Justice Quotes
All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?
We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
A good act does not wash out the bad, nor a bad act the good. Each should have its own reward.
I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.
Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
The goal is justice, the method? is transparency. It's important not to confuse the goal and the method.
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.
When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.
No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.
If, with the nation watching, three black women at three different levels can't get justice... for this community, you tell me where you're going to get it in our country.
Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines.
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech.
Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world.
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.
It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.
The future of peace and prosperity that we seek for all the world's peoples needs a foundation of tolerance, security, equality and justice.
It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.
Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.
Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a character, or any character, if I put my all into it. That's the choice you have to make.
It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.
