Justice Quotes

Mercy trumps justice.

Justice seldom happens by accident.

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.

We do need to rethink privacy. I think we need to fall back on (former Supreme Court Justice) Felix Frankfurter's definition of privacy which is, "Privacy is the right to be left alone."

Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.

Thou art Justice ne'er for gold May thy righteous laws be sold As laws are in England thou Shield'st alike the high and low.

My serve was there, everything was just clicking. Those are the days you dream about, especially in a final.

Sometimes I wish I could just fall in love. Then, at least you know who your opponent is.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

Honour is Virtue's allowed ascent: honour that clasps All perfect justice in her arms; that craves No more respect than that she gives; that does Nothing but what she'll suffer.

The justice of it seems to children correct and right - I mean, we laugh at it! We underestimate children's ability to know what is a story and what isn't.

I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn.

It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.

Humanity needs justice, peace and love and we can have this only by returning with our hearts towards God who is the source of all this.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

It does not render justice to the victims, but rather fosters vengeance.

Christ's work is a kind of deterrent to us, and a way of upholding the justice of God's divine government of the world.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

The higher purpose of the cross was that the Father would be glorified by the satisfaction of His justice.

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.

Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor.

There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

There is no truly global justice.

Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.

I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Justice is a jagged road.

Any culture which can put a man on the Moon is capable of gathering all the nations of the earth in peace, justice and concord.

Mexico was most powerfully my father's smile and not, as you might otherwise imagine, not language, not pigment.

We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.

Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.

Something is profoundly wrong and we are desperate for justice, for restoration and for somebody somewhere to do something about this.