Justice Quotes

Chile has done a lot to rid itself of poverty, especially extreme poverty, since the return to democracy. But we still have a ways to go toward greater equity. This country does not have a neoliberal economic model anymore. We have put in place a lot of policies that will ensure that economic growth goes hand in hand with social justice.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

I contend that Bush would be a lot more moderate if there weren't some fundamentalists breathing down his neck every time he wants to establish the state of Israel, every time he wants to do justice for the Palestinian people.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

More law, less justice.

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

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The more laws, the less justice.

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

Parents are not interested in justice, they're interested in peace and quiet.

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom.

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me.

Justice is truth in action.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

There is an insuperable problem about introducing immigrants to British values. There are no British values. Nor are there any Serbian or Peruvian values. No nation has a monopoly on fairness and decency, justice and humanity.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

Freedom and Justice are twin sisters.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to choose between public justice and private happiness.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

Let justice be done, though the world perish.

The first requisite of civilization is that of justice.

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

The big tyrants never face justice.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists.

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

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can't deliver.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.