Justice Quotes

We fancy men are individuals; so are pumpkins; but every pumpkin in the field goes through every point of pumpkin history.

The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man's interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.

Life is not fair, but one day God's going to settle the score. He's going to right the wrongs. So, who can get better justice - you or God?

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

The triumph of justice is the only peace.

Live and let live is the rule of common justice.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

To the ancient Greeks the word, dikaiosini,justice was often synonymous with ekdikisis,vengeance.

The injustice of men subserves the justice of God, and often His mercy.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

Seldom or never is a poor man honored by the world; however worthy of honor he may be, he is apt rather to be despised by it.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

We must diligently strive to make our young men decent, God-fearing, law-abiding, honor-loving, justice-doing and also fearless and strong.

The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

There is a direct relationship between a person's grasp and experience of God's grace, and his or her heart for justice and the poor.

Liberation means you don't have to be silenced.

Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

It is impossible to find twelve fair men in all the world.

Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away. They just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is, Friday, March 6, 1981.

Peace, if possible, but justice at any rate.

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor

Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum.

I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong.

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

Speak up, stand up, and keep correcting the false perceptions. Stay true to your heart's views and keep chanting for peace and justice.

God's love for his people is so great that it turns God against himself, his love against his justice.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.

Are we Pakistanis, children of a lesser God? Is there one law for the west and one for us? Is our democracy supposed to be only democracy if you give us a no objection certificate?

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

There are two forms of justice. There is what is called retributive justice and there is restorative justice.

In our criminal justice system, we say it's better for 10 guilty people to go free than for even one innocent person to be wrongly convicted.

Justice deferred is justice denied.

God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children.

We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that "justice too long delayed is justice denied."

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.

NoH8 on the Hill, NoH8 anywhere. No American, regardless of who they love, should be denied equal protection under the law. History is on our side and our march towards justice will prevail.

Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

When we see others victimized we must speak out. We have to seek justice for everybody.