Justice Quotes - Page 102

The social arrangements that produce responsibility are arrangements that create coercion, of some sort.

The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.

The history of the world is the world's court of justice.

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this principle with all the force of my lungs (which alas! is all too inadequate).

No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice.

...the statement, "The purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign," is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.

I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

As all things eternal and primordial reappear, so all things mortal return to the earth. Honor, old age, probity, justice, constance, virtue, and gentleness are all gathered into the cold tomb.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns and women join the unqualified men in running our government.

I wish I could be honest and true, but truth as I see it is not something abstract, a pious generality---It is justice at work, righteous, demanding, disciplined, sincere and unswerving; otherwise, it is not, it cannot be truth at all.

When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.

A sense of justice is a noble fancy.

To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.

God gave a loaf to every bird, But just a crumb to me.

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa.