Justice Quotes - Page 137

The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.

If you feel like you can't actually do the right thing and you're headed off into the field of justice, maybe there's no point in going into it.

The justice system is flawed, and that just because you're overtly guilty doesn't actually mean you're actually going to go away, to jail.

Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?

The whole future of America's black community is at risk. One out of every three young black men in Washington, D.C., is under one arm or the other of the criminal justice system. These are the continuing consequences of slavery.

The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and hopes he has done justice and given satisfaction to the community

Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.

Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!-it seems to say,-there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.

Nor knowest thou what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone.

Who makes and keeps the Jew or the Negro base, who but you, who exclude them from the rights which others enjoy?

A mob cannot be a permanency: everybody's interest requires that it should not exist, and only justice satisfies all.

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when we discern truth, we do nothing by ourselves, but allow a passage to its beams. If we ask whence this comes, if we seek to pry into the soul that causes, all philosophy is at fault. Its presence or its absence is all we can affirm.

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

There is no truly global justice.

Family values stand up to injustice and power outside the household.

The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails.

This policy represents a massive injustice against Iraqi civilians, ... and it must be ended - not after Mr. Clinton leaves office, but now.

But there's more than just solving the how-to problems. I've often said that if we're going to have a real rural renaissance, I'd just take the solving of the how-to problems for granted. The first thing I'd provide would be festivals.

There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

Well that's too bad, because this is an assassination." "No, this is an execution." "The difference would be...?" "Assassination is murder. Execution is justice.

Justice is for the victim.” Kick. “Vengeance is for the survivor.

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.