Justice Quotes - Page 106

I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.

Don't tolerate me as different. Accept me as part of the spectrum of normalcy.

Injustice is a sixth sense, and rouses all the others.

INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the back.

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.

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

Climate change is a moral challenge, not simply an economic or technological problem. It is linked to social justice, because it is the poor citizens of the world who will suffer the most from our excesses.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Justice is the essence of peace

War is not in itself a condition so much as the symptom of a condition, that of international anarchy. If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order

Anyone who commits a xenophobic crime has to be brought to justice.

Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

I respect very much the role of the media in our society; I think they can be very, very helpful. They serve as a very useful check, sort of a watchdog over the actions of the government, and I respect that. But there is a competing interest, and that is the ability of prosecutors to get information that may be absolutely essential to assist them in the investigation of illegal wrongdoing. And so you've got these two competing interests. I believe that the current policy at the Department of Justice reflects a careful balancing of those interests.

I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

I will continue to fight for justice, fairness, and constitutional rights until my dying breath.

Revolutions invariably don't solve the issue of justice, and in its place, suppression and limiting freedom replaces that idea.

Justice is not something God has. Justice is something that God is.

I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.

You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering.

The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.