Justice Quotes

So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity.

The roster of Nobel Peace Prize winners, though it has some strange people on it from time to time, tends to feature folks who fought for social justice in a nonviolent and constructive way somehow.

The right to justice is something that no one can bestow, nor take away, for it is in one's heart.

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.

Envy among other ingredients has a mixture of the love of justice in it. We are more angry at undeserved than at deserved good-fortune.

These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love.

Incidentally, the usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played in extending the scale to apply to earthquakes in all parts of the world.

The world's people all share the earnest aspiration to have peace, stability, justice and cooperation.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

I say that justice is truth in action.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind.

We remain united with the British, and our allies around the world, in our resolve to defeat terrorism and bring those who commit these acts to justice.

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.

Congress has an opportunity to take advantage of the opening created by Justice Kennedy later this year when it reauthorizes the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Freedom. And Justice. If you have those two, it covers everything. You must stick to those principles and have the courage of your convictions.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.