Quotes about justice
justice waiting storm
No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal. Nicole Krauss
justice pleasure ecstasy
To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Mark Twain
justice
Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved. Marian Wright Edelman
justice fairy-tale fairy
The biggest fairy tale is that justice works because it doesn't. Lauren Beukes
justice doubt together
If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it. Leo Tolstoy
justice evil heroism
It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. Peter Kreeft
justice three lasts
I have been in the witness protection program for the last three weeks. I campaigned for Ralph Nader. I'm now living as a woman in Mississippi. Phil Donahue
justice conclusion let-me
Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this. Peter Sellers
justice may want
I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. Pierre Trudeau
justice growth democracy
There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
justice may realms
Without Justice, no realm may prosper. Pythagoras
justice brave desire
No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation. Joseph Brant
justice
There is no truly global justice. Ralph Steadman
justice people political
All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity. Rahul Gandhi
justice should interest
A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all. Ralph Waldo Emerson
justice
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.
justice lawyer halls
In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls. Lenny Bruce
justice wells subjects
Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers. Thomas Aquinas
justice unjust causes
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
justice wheels sometimes
Sometimes the wheels of justice grind slowly. Terry Waite
justice religion administration
Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice. Joseph Story
justice empathy understanding
What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really 'empathy' and 'understanding.' He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. Karl Rove
justice firsts social-justice
What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education. Jules Michelet
justice littles noise
There is a justice, but we do not always see it. Discreet, smiling, it is there, at one side, a little behind injustice, which makes a big noise. Jules Renard
justice victim peace-and-justice
Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace. Juan Manuel Santos
justice people forgiving
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything. Karl Kraus
justice criminals human-nature
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.
justice temples worship
From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice. Julius Wellhausen
justice progress gaps
Yes, over the centuries economic progress has reduced some gross disparities - modern Americans are relatively unlikely to simply starve to death (though it can happen), so in that sense the gap between rich and poor has narrowed. But the question isn't whether society is, in some sense, more equal than it was in 1900. It's whether it is radically more unequal than it was in 1970. And of course it is. Paul Krugman
justice quality action
This, and no other, is justice: — to consider, under all the circumstances and consequences of a particular case, how the greatest quantity and purest quality of happiness will ensue from any action ... there is no other justice. Percy Bysshe Shelley
justice pears
I could peel you like a pear and god himself would see the justice in it. Katharine Hepburn
justice moderation bases
Moderation is the basis of justice. George MacDonald
justice littles purses
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one. Emily Post