Justice Quotes

The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen In living just as though no God there were.

Might she have loved me? just as well She might have hated, who can tell!

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.

Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.

Fundamentalism is not bred in poverty. There are plenty of poor countries in the world that don't have violence because amid the poverty there is a kind of justice and in some countries a democracy.

If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.

In this court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille.

I think that what art can do is refresh our sense of justice, wake us up to what we've taken for granted in the political realm, as in the other realms.

Justice is the well water of the city of Novgorod, black and sweet.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

Once again, President Clinton is using American troops to deflect attention from his record of lies, distortions, obstructions of justice and abuse of power.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

I grew up a squatter on the Lower East Side, so it's kind of a given that I'd have very strong opinions on everything from cyclical violence to teenage pregnancy to environmental justice.

loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice. [on turning down the role of the new Doctor Who

That's not the federal law. What you're confusing is law with the opinion of a justice, what one lone federal judge says is not law.

Maybe the Clinton chapter is over now. They've brought enough disgrace to America, the presidency, and the state department. They corrupted the Justice Department.

I certainly have the energy, and there's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.

I know the bottom of the Justice Department, and I know the top.

There's probably nobody that knows the Justice Department better than me.

Chief Justice Roberts is somebody I work with, somebody I admire, Justice Alito someone I knew when he was U.S. attorney, also admire.

Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.

Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.

The aim of any good constitution is to achieve in a society a high degree of political harmony, so that order and justice and freedom may be maintained.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

I stated at Justice [John] Roberts' hearing, the court's injected itself into many of the political debates of our day.

I am deeply honored to have been nominated for a position on the Supreme Court. And I an humbled to have been nominated for the seat that is now held by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

Justice is indispensably and universally necessary, and what is necessary must always be limited, uniform, and distinct

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

Gratitude is a virtue which, according to the general apprehension of mankind, approaches more nearly than almost any other social virtue to justice.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.

I'm not on the court anymore, so no use looking for my philosophy. If somebody's waiting for that, they can wait for another justice.

The fact that people are poor or discriminated against doesn't necessarily endow them with any special qualities of justice, nobility, charity or compassion.

The military code of justice sets out exactly what type of charges are available for specific acts.

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Doing justice to the work is your task, not setting a world record.

Because you can poke someone's eye out legally doesn't mean you should and that it's right. The Bible teaches us a more perfect justice.

I think in the end, God's justice is redemptive, it's restorative, it's about giving life, not taking life.

In terms of Saving Face, I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn’t let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to give.

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.