Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Van Jones

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

Richard McCann

We suspended the meeting, ... Karen called the police to have him removed from the meeting.

Michael Sata

I have got my very own cadres in uniform (police).

Russell Brand

In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

William S. Burroughs

I detest limitations of any kind, and intend to establish my ass some place where I am a virgin on the police blotter.

William S. Burroughs

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Rebekah Brooks

I have never paid a policeman myself. I have never sanctioned, knowingly sanctioned, a payment to a police officer.

Robert Reich

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms.

Van Jones

I saw in the Nineties that we were increasing police power with get tough policies and 3 strikes laws, but without additional oversights.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Juvenal

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Rob Corddry

I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

Truman Capote

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

William Wordsworth

For youthful faults ripe virtues shall atone.

Valentino Garavani

I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

Robert Louis Stevenson

If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.

Walter Map

Hoc solum deliqui, quod uiuo. My only fault is that I am alive.

William Penn

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.