Justice Quotes

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

When we have a great goal we are superior even to justice, not merely to our deeds and our judges.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

We don't have any real justice in the legal system, you never see a headline that reads, Millionaire Gets Death Sentence.

Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights.

To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.

Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke . . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.

All are presumed good till they are found at fault.

Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. [Justice pleases few in their own house.]

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

We stand united, facing the big responsibility to change our country into a nation of justice, solidarity, humanity and green development.

You promised him vengeance as well.' 'I promised him justice.' 'Call it what you will. It still comes down to blood." - Tywin & Tyrion

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want - I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.

All of us in America want there to be fairness when it comes to justice.

In my judgment, the only way to deal with terrorists is to stay on the offensive, is to find them and bring them to justice before they hurt us again.

Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

Oppressed persons, oppressed cultures, tend to be more political, obviously, as are those with a rage for justice, or the crazy messianic desire.

We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

When poor and ordinary Americans who commit crimes are prosecuted and imprisoned, that is Justice. When the same thing is done to Washington elites, that is Ugly Retribution.

It still may take some explaining, but many more women are keeping their birth names (and not calling them maiden names, with all the sexual double standards that implies).

Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.

The Koran and Islam is about submission, justice and compassion. All people of the "book" - which means the Torah, Koran and Bible are accorded equal respect under Islam.

One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there.

One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

I can be pushed just so far.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

The wise fools who sit in the high places of justice fail to see that in revolutionary times vital issues are settled not by statutes, decrees and authorities, but in spite if them.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism; reason and justice presuppose, at their origin, emotion.

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

While the Governor, and the Mayor, and countless officers of the Commonwealth are at large, the champions of liberty are imprisoned.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy and justice.

Economic progress and justice do not consist in superbly equalized destitution, but in the constant creation of more and more goods and services, of more and more wealth and income to be shared.

I'm pessimistic. I don't think that justice always gets the right person.

God wishes to exhaust all means of kindness before His hand takes hold on justice.

Love is more just than justice.

One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

You cant have justice unless you have truth.