Justice Quotes
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
Thomas More -
The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.
Frans de Waal
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I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.
Neil Kinnock -
They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor
William Shakespeare -
A federation of all humanity, together with a sufficient measure of social justice, to ensure health, education, and a rough equality of opportunity to most of the children born into the world, would mean such a release and increase of human energy as to open a new phase in human history.
H. G. Wells -
The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.
Friedrich August von Hayek -
A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.
Aristide Briand -
One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.
Heraclitus
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The evident justice and utility of the foregoing maxims have recommended them more or less to the attention of all nations.
Adam Smith -
A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.
Charles Darwin -
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.
Alexander Hamilton -
The E.U. is more than just a trade organization or a common market; it is a guarantee of democracy, freedom, justice, and human rights. Nations cannot stay in the E.U. if they do not respect these guarantees.
John Bruton -
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
Marc Morial -
The only actors who can really do justice to their parts are the ones who don't know what they are.
Gene Wolfe
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Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
Benjamin Cardozo -
The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.
N. T. Wright -
Justice too long delayed is justice denied.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
It is not a persuasive argument that an evil should continue because it has existed in the past.
William H. Hastie -
Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.
William Francis Buckley -
They said I was the greatest pitcher they ever sawI couldnt understand why they couldnt give me no justice.
Satchel Paige
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I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
Upton Sinclair -
The sentence imposed on Abdul Kadir sends a powerful and clear message. We will bring to justice those who plot to attack the United States of America.
Loretta Lynch -
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.
Robert Frost -
When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.
Peter Kropotkin