Justice Quotes - Page 126

There'll be no more big powers and oppressed poor - only fairness and justice for all, and eternal happiness. So if you're looking for the perfect city and the perfect government in the perfect country with perfect people, just wait a little while longer - it's coming

If you come with mercy but not justice; that's called enabling.

What's more important is that we talk about movements; change happens through movements. The movement to end slavery, the movement to bring justice for those who have been left out of the system, movements to include women, movements around sexual preference - all these movements brought about change.

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

Since the Justice Department refuses to allow you to render a verdict, I'm going to present the case now, on the facts, against Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.

Any attempt to disturb the deadly routine of instruction is looked upon as sabotage. And the notion that the aims and functions of education should be determined in the local community by a close and continuous discussion among students, faculty, administration, and citizens is so visionary that it is not even seriously considered.

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

Government price-fixing once started, has alike no justice and no end. It is an economic folly from which this country has every right to be spared.

When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

It's annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren't they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Justice is as much a matter of fashion as charm is.

Your parents put a curse on you - Someday your kids are going to act just like you.

nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

It's one thing for a man not to know, not to have learned; it's another not to be able to live by what one does know.

Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since the day the Holy Temple was destroyed, the righteous are seized by death for the iniquities of the generation

Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.

Injustice towards others is a threat to everybody

The absurd man is he who never changes.