Justice Quotes

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.

Gather, gather your youth: Just like this flower, old age Your beauty will wither.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

I used to buy into a former Supreme Court justice's argument that you can't scream fire in a crowded theater. Well, I think you can.

Allah executed and rendered justice for the sake of putting together and harmonization of the hearts.

Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.

Thou shalt not ration justice.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them, and stab them in the heart.

I think only a massive public outcry would result in my receiving any measure of justice.

The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

Justice and equity are twin Guardians that watch over men. From them are revealed such blessed and perspicuous words as are the cause of the well-being of the world and the protection of the nations.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

But if we expect justice for ourselves, we must support it for others.

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.

Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society.

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

At Calvary, God accepted his own unbreakable terms of justice.

Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.

But if by some miracle and all our struggle, the earth is spared, only justice to every living being will save humankind.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice.

Justice was born outside the home and a long way from it; and it has never been adopted there

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

If any difference should be made by law between husband and wife, reason, justice and humanity, if their voices were heard, would dictate that it should be in her favor.

The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

It's just a matter of time before we're late.

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.