Justice Quotes
Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail.
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.
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.
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 by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy.
If one cannot risk oneself, then one is simply incapable of giving. And, after all, one can give freedom only by setting someone free.
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.
When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.
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.
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.
No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.
When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.
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.
The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.
We have sown a seed... Instead of a half-formed Europe, we have a Europe with a legal entity, with a single currency, common justice, a Europe which is about to have its own defence.
Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.
Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, What's shaking, chiefy baby?
I think that as the guardian of justice elected by the people it's our duty to use whatever forms of force, police, army, to make sure that at least the freedom of choice is preserved.
The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.
For the majority of Americans, collectivist or nationalized economy is morally wrong and therefore unjust. For them, free enterprise meets their keen sense of justice.
There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
The first step into justice begins with the politicians. You have to demand from yourself what you demand from people.
I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
The reality is not that I lack respect for the law; it's that I have greater respect for justice.
I also learned that you are affected by your environment, even if you try not to be. Color, light that is, matters because you want to do justice to it and also you get excited by it.
Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.