Justice Quotes
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The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
Dahlia Lithwick
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My dad spent most of the '50s and early '60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department, as a civil rights lawyer. So it was actually reading his papers after he passed away a few years ago that first started me thinking about this... What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man?
Bill Foster
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No people on earth can be held, as a people, to be an enemy, for all humanity shares the common hunger for peace and fellowship and justice. … No nation's security and well-being can be lastingly achieved in isolation but only in effective cooperation with fellow-nations.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.
Mary Frances Berry
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I can't always say that justice is always done in 'Game of Thrones.' It is not.
Gemma Whelan
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
D. H. Lawrence
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We must not be enticed by mathematically attractive assumptions into pretending that the contingencies of men's social positions and the asymmetries of their situations somehow even out in the end. Rather we must choose our conception of justice fully recognizing that this is not and cannot be the case.
John Rawls
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But social justice and the environment are very tied together in my head.
Dar Williams
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There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus
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Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
Wendell Berry
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.
Abraham Lincoln
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And finally, let’s remember that peace with justice depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. Threats to freedom don’t merely come from the outside. They can emerge from within - from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens.
Barack Obama
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Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.
Mason Cooley
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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
Kapil Sibal
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Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely.
Learned Hand
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But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.
John Jay Hooker
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You can’t eat justice.
Courtney Milan
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But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong, Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
Edmund Spenser
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
Van Jones
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But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Terrorism does not disappear with revenge tactics but through making justice and equality before law a reality.
Asma Jahangir