Justice Quotes

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

Expediency often silences justice.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime.

When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.

If there were any justice in this world, people would occasionally be permitted to fly over pigeons.

Justice is juxtaposition in us Justice for all just ain't specific enough.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

We seek a restorative justice, not a retributive justice.

Strength and strength's will are the supreme ethic. All else are dreams from hospital beds, the sly, crawling goodness of sneaking souls.

Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

The essence of justice is mercy.

It's the latest trendy thinking by the Ministry of Justice... Restorative justice is a fad.

I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.

I am not antiwhite, because I understand that white people, like black ones, are victims of a racist society. They are products of their time and place.

Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

I have tremendous confidence in the capacity of the poor to transform not only their own lives but also to build a just, humane, and democratic society.

Justice is a blindfolded woman.

I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got 5 more inside me pushing to get out.

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.

It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. . . . Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learn to ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.

Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice.

A rule that cannot be bent will certainly be broken.

Do not be merciful, but be just, for mercy is bestowed upon the guilty criminal, while Justice is all that the innocent man requires.

Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a world that was based on egalitarianism, sharing, racial justice.

The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both.

The stronger the facts are there, you should achieve justice. You don't need to make sensationalized statements.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.