Quotes about justice
justice dignity situation
Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. Desmond Tutu
justice guilt clients
It's not your client's obligation, or your obligation, to prove your client's innocence. It is the prosecution's obligation to - to prove you're client's guilt. Anderson Cooper
justice choices strategy
If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient. Amartya Sen
justice important world
One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s very important.
justice vengeance judgment
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. Chuck Jones
justice effort passionate
I am passionate about any effort to achieve social justice and equality, particularly for women. Christy Turlington
justice steel quarrels
I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel. Christopher Marlowe
justice tangled world
In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos. Christopher Moore
justice mercy canterbury
Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. Anselm of Canterbury
justice would-be world
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners. Anthony Daniels
justice poverty moral
Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security. Anna Lindh
justice historical balance
we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance. Angela Davis
justice racism social-justice
Racism cannot be separated from capitalism.
justice everyday done
Justice is not always done in this world; we see that everyday. But on the Last Day it will be done for all to see. And no one will be able to complain by saying, "This isn't fair." D. A. Carson
justice sensual next
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice. D. H. Lawrence
justice infinite circumstances
Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand. Clarence Darrow
justice goes-on courtroom
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom
justice lawyer court
Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out. Dashiell Hammett
justice death-penalty human-life
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life. Coretta Scott King
justice gentleman favors
Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor. Confucius
justice faults serious
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
justice rewards citizens
Justice is a commodity which in a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service. Ambrose Bierce
justice made commerce
PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.
justice social-justice chivalry
Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both. Alice Stone Blackwell
justice social-justice live-free
I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi. Alice Walker
justice one-day firsts
As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.
justice liberty contradiction
Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom. Albert Camus
justice crowns slave
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
justice judging minorities
the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny. Anna Quindlen
justice funeral balance
[I]n contrast to the common belief that they are the world's greatest cynics, the best journalists are the world's great idealists. They have experienced firsthand the great soothing balance of human existence. For every disgrace there is triumph, for every wrong there is a moment of justice, for every funeral a wedding, for every obituary a birth announcement.
justice honor thank-god
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. Alfred Hershey
justice community movement
Today I send this message to every emerging global corporation: "justice; family, community, and union" are the same in every language and, wherever you go and whatever you do, a new global labor movement is coming to find you. Andy Stern
justice cynical injustice
Justice is the sanction of established injustice. Anatole France