Justice Quotes

It is only on the basis of the probable and the apparent that men bereft of a sixth sense are able to sit in judgment over other men.

If you can bow in front of the justice at the height of your power, it means that you are really a just person!

Let everything be remade on simple lines. There is only one people, there is only one people!

Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.

I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.

It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.

A trial is two narratives competing for your attention.

All the buildings of justice will remain idle on the day when all men have high conscience!

Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift.

If there is no justice in a country, who can claim that, that country is a country? An injustice country is just a rubbish bin!

The Indian criminal justice system was a market like garbage, Abdul now understood. Innocence and guilt could be bought and sold like a kilo of polyurethane bags.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

Prison is, simply put, the bottom rung of the welfare ladder.

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise, a Supreme Court Justice must interpret the laws without fear or favor.

Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.

The trial by jury might safely be introduced into a despotic government, if the jury were to exercise no right of judging of the law, or the justice of the law.

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are determined on a local level.

Peace is not the silence of cemeteries, but the song of social justice.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

My dean gave me permission to model during my work semester, even though I was in the Criminal Justice Department. I don't know whether I'd ever have become a model if he hadn't let me do that.

I think that it is impossible to think of a threat to social justice greater than what we are doing to the earth's atmosphere at the moment.

The justice system is now just a system.

I was raised with the blessing of being involved with peace and social justice, and the environmental movement. I have my parents to thank for that.

My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.

Just in general, when we look at our school system, there is so much overlap with our criminal justice system in terms of our low-income youth.

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

Restorative justice says "No, the offense affected a relationship" and what you are seeking for is to restore the relationship, to heal the relationship.

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

Courts in America seem to be so political, and it would be so great for our justice system if they would be able to read a statement and do what's right.

We will accomplish all of the steps .And, when we do, peace and law and justice and prosperity will prevail. Crime will go down. Border crossings will plummet. Gangs will disappear.

God's justice and love are one. Infinite justice must be infinite love. Justice is but another sign of love.

Anybody who understands the justice system knows innocent people are convicted every day.

I think some parts of the American justice system have gone haywire.

I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

We've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system.

I have, ever since the first day of my campaign, called for criminal justice reform.