Justice Quotes

The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

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

We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid.

Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plan religion.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.

Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.

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.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Don't be satisfied with just pumping blood.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

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

Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

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

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

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

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

A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.

Acquittal of the guilty damns the judge.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.

If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

Any time a secret group usurps the collective will of the people, it’s wrong. Period.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

What we're losing culturally the fastest, aside from natural resources and oil and the idea of democracy and social justice, is the ability to concentrate.

When you're fighting for economic and social justice, you're always fighting for the minority.

All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.

How is there going to be Peace when there is no Justice?

No future without forgiveness.

Whites have traded their culture for power.

Goods which are not shared are not goods.

We are the in midst of a bipartisan moment as it relates to criminal justice reform and dealing with mass incarceration in America which disproportionately impacts the African-American community.

When you say I want to talk about racial justice, that's not the same as saying I want to do something about racial justice.

Race determines everything in the criminal justice system.

The central task of our time is to evolve a new system of world order based on principles of peace and justice.

I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom.

The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.