Justice Quotes

Maintaining a fair and accessible justice system should at all times be the overarching concern of Government

Housing is a human right. There can be no fairness or justice in a society in which some live in homelessness, or in the shadow of that risk, while others cannot even imagine it.

Harming one’s unalienable rights in order to serve justice is injustice.

Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That’s not fair!

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.

Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.

Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.

If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.

The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?

I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.

Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.

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

Every society has the criminals that it deserves.

To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.

Granny always said finding justice was as tough as putting socks on a rooster.

The rape of justice anywhere, violates justice everywhere

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.

Only remember this: to seek justice is a good and noble thing, to seek revenge out of hatred is something that wiil devour your very soul.

Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.

Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself.

Justice never sleeps.

The one who has suffered has the right to decide the course of action....Punishment or Let Go is purely the call of the sufferer.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it."She looked back at him. "I will one day, sir. I'm getting tired of falling down.

Justice might well prevail in the end, but ordinary people like me had no guarantee of surviving that long. We might get killed on the whim of some serial killer first.

Underneath all notions of justice is a set of faith assumptions that are essentially religious, and these are often not acknowledged.

It's Unfair to be fairBecause Life is unfair

Justice? -You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

Beware of a client who's suing on principle and paying by the hour. He rarely gets his money's worth.

The critical issues here concern what is right, what is just -- not the balancing of benefits.

Gurion would lament: What is the good of trying to do justice if God will kill me and my family whether or not I do justice?

My larger point is that since each of us struggles daily with good and bad impulses, we might want to restructure our social institutions in order to make it a little easier to be good.

God's justice is always perfect.

Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?

The price of conviction has never been cheap, but it will always be worth it.

Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum qtd. in Halter)

We may not choose apathy, but when we choose anything other than love and empathetic justice, we get apathy by default.

At the end of the day--of almost any day, regardless of what we have done or left undone--apathy tells us that it's perfectly acceptable to live with illusions of our own justice.

A subtle reason for apathy is that justice rarely has much to do with our lives. Unless we've personally been victims of injustice, we can take for granted that life is generally fair.

Let the one who seeks justice be just.

Injustice is a cold, unrelenting reality. It can be tempting for us to use our comfort to ignore injustice or rationalize it away. But God would have us join His work.

There was no justice in rebellion. This Javert had come to believe after seeing Marseille fall headfirst into the abyss of the revolution.

God cannot be indicted with injustice because someone rejected a gift they weren't entitled to in the first place.

The being who patiently endures injustice, and silently bears insults, will soon become unjust, or unable to discern right from wrong.

Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, but that’s about the extent of their relationship.