Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Dershowitz

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

Alain de Botton

We feel something, and reach out for the nearest phrase or hum with which to communicate, but which fails to do justice to what has induced us to do so....We stay on the outside of our impressions, as if staring at them through a frosted window, superficially related to them, yet estranged from whatever has eluded casual definition.

Charles Kingsley

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

Jane Addams

The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it.

Jane Austen

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

Janet Reno

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.

Gary L. Francione

We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if no one else does. We are vegan because justice minimally requires that we not take life for trivial purposes.

bell hooks

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

bell hooks

Without justice there can be no love.

Baltasar Gracian

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward egalite and justice -- the foundation stones for a sound democracy.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

Arundhati Roy

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

Arundhati Roy

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

Dana Perino

Even before the hearings that led to confirmation of Chief Justice Roberts, senators were saying they were reserving judgment on how they would vote until they got to know him better at the hearings.

Cobi Jones

I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.

Susan B. Anthony

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Branford Marsalis

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Blaise Pascal

Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Blaise Pascal

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Blaise Pascal

Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.

Bill James

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Dennis Prager

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

Demosthenes

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Denis Diderot

Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey.

Denis Diderot

If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

Denis Diderot

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

Brooks Atkinson

I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God's work.

Edmund Spenser

But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

Edmund Spenser

Where justice grows, there grows eke greater grace.