Justice Quotes - Page 121

We cannot eradicate global drug markets, but we can certainly regulate them as we have done with alcohol and tobacco markets. Drug abuse, alcoholism and tobacco should be treated as public health problems, not criminal justice issues.

Chief Justice [John] Roberts compared judges to umpires, who apply rules they did not write and cannot change to the competition before them.

I dont love the phrase balancing work and family. It sets up this idea of scales of justice with work on one side and family on the other side.

[On Senator Jesse Helms] I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good Lord's mind, because if there is retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his grandchildren will.

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.

Let's roll for justice, let's roll for truth. Let's not let our children grow up fearful in their youth.

Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.

Blood for life. Life for life. Changeling justice.

Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor distinction in the Corinthian church, for instance, or the projected reconciliation between Philemon and Onesimus. But he clearly believes (Ephesians 3) that communities like this send a signal to the wider world that Jesus is Lord - which is aimed at then the whole world coming into line.

All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.

All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.

"From what I have seen here," remarked Sancho, "justice is so good a thing that even robbers find it necessary."

Today, criminal justice functions and justifies itself only by this perpetual reference to something other than itself, by this unceasing reinscription in non-juridical systems.

There's something in the cross that says this is not just about my "salvation" but about the "salvation" of all those who suffer injustice and inequality.

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.

The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.

Unfortunately in life, justice is not always achieved.

Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world.

Once you follow a path of nonviolence and social justice, it won't take you long before you come into conflict with the culture, with the society. You can't know what is at stake or how much it is going to cost you until you get in the game. That's the only way, and the level of cost is equal to the level of involvement.

You think about the Pledge of Allegiance, "liberty and justice for all." This is at the core of the American creed. The creation of the Legal Services Corporation was a recognition that low-income people have trouble being able to afford a lawyer.

We learned that we could move others to take action...Even though we couldn't stop the war, I discovered that I could be involved in the movement for peace and justice. From that day on I knew that I was going to be committed to working for change.

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

there's no justice, there's only love.