Famous Quotes & Sayings

Horace

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Horace

If you study the history and records of the world you must admit that the source of justice was the fear of injustice.

Guy Burgess

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

Gottfried Leibniz

Justice is charity in accordance with wisdom.

James Crawford

With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where did the Constitution say anything about English?

Glenn Beck

If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

Frank Herbert

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Immanuel Kant

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

If I think he's going to be a Justice Scalia, who I like personally very much, I vote no. If I think he's going to be a Kennedy, I vote yes. If I think he's going to be a Rehnquist, I probably vote yes.

J. K. Rowling

I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.

J. K. Rowling

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

Grace Paley

Literature, fiction, poetry, whatever, makes justice in the world. That's why it almost always has to be on the side of the underdog.

George Herbert

Justice pleaseth few in their owne house. [Justice pleases few in their own house.]

Gary Hamel

Business leaders must find ways to infuse mundane business activities with deeper, soul-stirring ideals, such as honor, truth, love, justice, and beauty.

Jerry Brown

Inaction may be the biggest form of action.

Jennifer Armintrout

If we truly seek diversity in fiction, we have to let the needs of others come before our need to define ourselves as social justice allies.

Humphrey Bogart

Major Strasser: You give him (Rick Blaine) credit for too much cleverness. My impression was that he's just another blundering American. Captain Renault: We musn't underestimate American blundering. I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918.

Samuel Butler

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

Walter Benjamin

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

We have turned the 'Land of Lincoln' into the land of jackpot-justice.

Aeschylus

The adulterer dies. An old custom, justice.

Aeschylus

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Agatha Christie

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.

Adam Hochschild

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.

William Shakespeare

Time is the justice that examines all offenders.

Ludwig von Mises

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Till women are more rationally educated, the progress in human virtue and improvement in knowledge must receive continual checks.

Ayad Allawi

With confidence, we can say that next week the trials of these individuals will start, and the people's justice will be served,

We've been meeting with Justice in the last several weeks rather extensively.

Coleman Young

We must take the profit out of prejudice.

Dar Williams

But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.

Cornel West

This is what it is for Asians to be part of - support affirmative action, even though it may be against their interest, but they feel it's a matter of justice.