Justice Quotes

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.

In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

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

The United States has the burden to lead for peace. And not just peace - we need peace with justice, a much harder goal.

Justice is the truth in action.

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Rules of taste enforce structures of power.

Who judges the judge who judges wrong?

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Violence will only increase the cycle of violence.

No one is above the law and that I would pursue justice on their behalf.

The law should be a shield for the weak and powerless, not a club for the

Growing is the result of learning.

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.

I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it.

Justice for All in the World

--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!

Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

A lawyer's relationship to justice and wisdom is on a par with a piano tuner's relationship to a concert. He neither composes the music, nor interprets it-he merely keeps the machinery running.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

Human attempts to construct moral order are always precarious: If righteousness too often leads to self-righteousness, the demand for justice can lead to one guillotine or another.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.

The rule of distributive justice is a statement of what ought to be, and what people say ought to be is determined in the long run and with some lag by what they find in fact to be the case.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

The court is the bureaucracy of the law. If you bureaucratise popular justice then you give it the form of a court.

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop of water off a lotus.

Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

Martin King was fundamentally committed to the least of these [poor, working people]. Of course, he was a Christian soldier for justice from the 25th chapter of Matthew.

Women, who are a majority of the peoples of the earth, are indispensable to the accumulation of the kind of social capital that is conducive to development, peace, justice and civility.