Justice Quotes

One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out.

There never was a war that was not inward.

Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

For you it is possible to do anything; the only thing impossible for you to do is to do wrong, inasmuch as you are knowledge and justice and love.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

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

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.

--"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.

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.

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.

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

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

Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

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.

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

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

Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

I'm no lady; I'm a member of Congress, and I'll proceed on that basis.

Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield?

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honours; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart.

There is a point beyond which even justice becomes unjust.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

Honor and good faith and justice are equally due from this country toward the weak as toward the strong.

It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.