Ann Radcliffe Quotes
When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
Quotes to Explore
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I have been singing for the last 50 years, you know, so I deserve a break. Besides, there are talented singers around who can do justice to their work.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
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Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Once you take a role, you have to do it properly and do it justice.
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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We used to say poor people had lousy genes. Then we decided that wasn't OK, but we transferred the prejudice to upbringing. We said, 'You were neglected as a child, so you'll never make it.' That's just as pernicious.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justice and plain common-sense.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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At the risk of sounding really corny now, I'm a career prosecutor. I've been doing this for a very long time. And I believe in holding people responsible when they violate the law. But our sole responsibility is to seek justice. And sometimes that means a very lengthy sentence for people who are dangerous and from which society must be protected.
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I'm disappearing from twitter for a while. Need a break from the bile. Local prejudice just seems to bring out the worst in some people.
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Social justice is a cancer. Social justice means you are ruled by whatever the mob does. What social justice does is destroy individual responsibility.
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Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.
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I am afraid that it would be a mockery of justice if the death penalty is not imposed. And therefore I pleaded that there are maximum aggravating circumstances, which supersede the mitigating circumstances. And there is not a single mitigating circumstance which speaks in favor of the accused, and therefore all the accused deserve (the) death penalty.
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I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.
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But for me I think it's just about taking that time of reflection and contemplation. That's probably my process in every decision that I make: to make sure that I spend time just with myself, and really times of silence and mediation to go through that process; and music is a big part of that as well.
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I don't want people memorizing the planets or counting how many plants there are in the world. But I want them to know that the world is 4.56 billion years old, and I want them to know how we know it is 4.56 billion years old. It's wonderful and exciting, and it creates a reverence for nature. When I see people reject all that, it's kind of creepy.
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When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.
