Justice Quotes
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)
When you are silent on the truth, you have given a transport fare for the lie to travel and spread fast.
If you are going to hide yourself and you will not stand against the work of the bad people, you have given them an endorsement.
You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.
The judge speaks in the name of justice, ' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is only a higher form of justice.' (Bishop Myriel)
Peace": the fruit of justice done especially to the Self.
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent
The tragedy of sin reached its crescendo when God in Christ became sin . . .He was offering Himself as the sacrifice required by the justice of God if man was to be redeemed.
The justice which would forgive miles of innocent errors of knowledge, would not forgive a single step taken in conscious evil.
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.~ Albert Einstein
In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.
Do you imagine that a city can continue to exist and not be turned upside down, if the legal judgments which are pronounced in it have no force but are nullified and destroyed by private persons?
People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
Hark, villains! I will grind your bones to dust. (Act V, Scene 2, 2503)
There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country
. . . for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.
Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.
We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
A government which deliberately enacts injustice, and persists in it, will at length ever become the laughing-stock of the world.
High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.
Because things are not agreeable, " said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
We need to let ourselves be evangelized by the poor. They have much to teach us.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do.
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.
Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.
Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.
Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.