Justice Quotes

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor brought critical qualities to the high court that not everybody thinks are qualities - I happen to think they are - her pragmatism and her state craft.

Justice [Sandra Day] O'Connor also brought balance to our highest court; most recently, as been repeated many times, when she cautioned about how war doesn't give a blank check.

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

All of us want to have meaning in our lives and want to feel like we're doing something that makes a difference. I believe we're doing that in the Justice Department.

Civilisation needs more than the law to hold it together. You see, all mankind are not equally willing to accept as divine justice what is called human law.

The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.

We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad.

In America there must be only citizens, not divided by grade, first and second, but citizens, east, west, north, and south.

As a public person, I've always tried to reflect what is embodied in our defining ideals as a nation about equality and fairness and justice and so forth.

Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

Freedom of conscience is a natural right, both antecedent and superior to all human laws and institutions whatever; a right which laws never gave and a right which laws can never take away.

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

The real illness of the American city today, and especially of the deprived groups within it, is voicelessness.

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.

If we say, as we do, that no one in this country intends for racism to lead to genocide, the effects of racism are genocidal, regardless of our intentions.

To think profoundly, to seek and speak truth, to love justice and denounce wrong is to draw upon one's self the ill will of many.

Justice and truth are the common ties of society

Temper justice with mercy.

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

Do justice to your brother (you can do that, whether you love him or not), and you will come to love him. But do injustice to him because you don't love him, and you will come to hate him.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Almost every magazine piece I've ever written, I felt like I haven't done it justice, like it was just a gloss.

Indeed, only one Supreme Court justice in history, one Horace Lurton, nominated by President [John] Taft, had more federal appeals court experience [than Samuel Alito].

I was pleased to see that Chief Justice [John] Roberts refused to prejudge issues or make promises in exchange for confirmation votes. We're all better off because of his principled stand.

Arizonians are deeply proud of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's service to this country. She will always be remembered by Arizonans and all Americans as an extraordinary public servant.

Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

Justice is a habit (habitus), whereby a man renders to each one his due with constant and perpetual will.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

Justice is the right of the weakest.

Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice—and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.

There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise.

Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.

Being a good neighbour is about compassion, which is as warm-blooded as justice is cool-headed.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

I think it's good for sporting justice that Ronaldo scored twice in the final.

Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.

The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.

I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.

The stories from 1975 on are not finished and there is no resolve. I could spend 50 hours on the last 25 years of jazz and still not do it justice.

Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.