Justice Quotes

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.

Ingrid Betancourt
- Peace
- Justice
- Accept
There is an important idea in psychology: The 'just world theory,' which says that it is very important for us to convince ourselves that the world is just and things happen for a reason. That there is some elemental fairness in everything, which creates the illusion of justice.

Malcolm Gladwell

American decision-makers must understand how damaging a foreign policy that privileges order and profit over justice really is in the long term.

Samantha Power
- Long
- American
- Decision
The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.

Ann Cotton
- World
- Children
- Violence
We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the common cause of freedom, justice, fairness, and equality. That is what unites us.

Barbara Boxer
- God
- Different
- Country
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most within it to do justice. And this fallibility is, at the end of the day, the most compelling, persuasive, and winning argument against a death penalty.

Eliot Spitzer
- Death
- Winning
- Efforts
Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.

Jack Layton
- Remember
- History
- Health
I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

Adam Michnik
- War
- Revolution
- Logic