Justice Quotes
-
True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
-
In so far as nationalism inculcates in us a sense of national and social justice which calls upon us to fight any system that is oppressive or tyrannical both in our country and the world, there I am completely with nationalism. I hate Imperialism whether British or Japanese or Burmese. ..
Aung San
-
It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
Jonathan Shapiro
-
The simple fact is that we must not-and we will not-surrender our borders to those who wish to exploit our history of compassion and justice.
Bill Clinton
-
The true end of education is not only to make the young learned, but to make them love learning; not only to make them industrious, but to make them love industry; not only to make them virtuous, but to make them love virtue; not only to make them just, but to make them hunger and thirst after justice.
Marcel Proust
-
I am interested in beauty. I think with beauty comes poetry, comes the lyrical. I think beauty is concerned with justice…
Nilo Cruz
-
Equal justice under the law, even if it's your mother. That was a point of admiration in our household. It was drilled into me.
Steve King
-
Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.
Elsa Triolet
-
The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious, but to love industry — not merely learned, but to love knowledge — not merely pure, but to love purity — not merely just, but to hunger and thirst after justice.
John Ruskin
-
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
Thomas Sowell
-
It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift
-
I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.
Evo Morales
-
Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.
John Lennon
The Beatles
-
I have to conclude, oh, the best people are all somebody other than my own race. So that's difficult. How do we interpret the Bible? Should we stress things like justice and that God is somebody who cares about equality of all people? Or is he a God of love and a God who's there to give me an afterlife?
Michael Emerson
-
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
-
You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.
Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow
-
It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
Stewart Udall
-
The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system.
George Washington
