Justice Quotes - Page 105

Virtues, of ... Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty.

In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the high powers of that mysterious and imaginative people.

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.

I see compassion may become a justice, though it be a weakness, I confess, and nearer a vice than a virtue.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

"Criminal justice" was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

The U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the so-called justice system. There's no telling what the U.S. government will do to me. I'm in constant danger; I guess I've gotten used to it.

Of course, there's an alternative to terrorism: it's called justice.

The ultimate object of education should be, Gandhi said, to help create not only a balanced and harmonious individual but also a balanced and harmonious society where true justice prevails, where there is no unnatural division between the haves and the have-nots, and where everybody is assured of a living wage and the right to live and the right to freedom.

Equal Justice Under The Law. That is a great goal. But that goal has not been realized.

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Court... a place where they dispense with justice.

Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen.

That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.

One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions.

Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed.

Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.