Justice Quotes
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I have always held that social justice, even to the least the lowliest, is impossible of attainment by force.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s.
Barack Obama
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I think we need to update the existing laws to create uniformity across the states so that all people with mental illness who find themselves in the criminal justice system for committing horrific crimes will be treated exactly the same.
Kimberly Guilfoyle -
In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes.
Lois Capps -
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn -
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?
Tony Kushner -
I said the first concern of the administration of justice must, of course, be the individual. The second concern is the truth.
Elliot Richardson
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Arbitration is justice blended with charity.
Nachman of Breslov -
The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.
Confucius -
Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
Barack Obama -
I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.
Ziggy Marley -
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
Carol Gilligan -
If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.
N. T. Wright
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There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.
Charles de Montesquieu -
I can't always say that justice is always done in 'Game of Thrones.' It is not.
Gemma Whelan -
I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.
Peter Tosh -
Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.
Potter Stewart -
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Delays in granting of justice very often reduce the speed with which investment could be undertaken, discouraging investors.
Lucas Papademos
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Endemic is a very hard, a very wide ranging word. I also have to be very careful not to prejudice the course of justice that is taking place now.
Rupert Murdoch -
We triggered a discussion in society about the connection between church and state as well as our justice system. Putin is the leader, the icon and the guarantor of an authoritarian system that crushes Kremlin critics along with the help of the secret police and ever changing methods and laws.
Yekaterina Samutsevich -
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.
Martin Luther -
The king knows with what ardor and perseverance I have at all times been devoted to the cause of liberty and to the principles of humanity, equality and justice.
Marquis de Lafayette