Justice Quotes - Page 15

Our cause is just. Our union is perfect.

The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.

When you believe in something, fight for it. And when you see injustice, fight harder than you've ever fought before.

And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

Human justice is very prolix, and yet at times quite mediocre; divine justice is more concise and needs no information from the prosecution, no legal papers, no interrogation of witnesses, but makes the guilty one his own informer and helps him with eternity's memory.

I therefore believe that our system does not have a word for failed trial, and that is where the American public does not realize that our criminal justice system sometimes makes mistakes.

The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.

The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice.

As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence gathering.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

My fight is not for racial sameness but for racial equality and against racial prejudice and discrimination.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.

Mercy surpasses justice.

Reverence is an attitude of honoring life. Reverence automatically brings forth patience. Reverence permits non-judgemental justice. Reverence is a perception of the soul.

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.: Glitch snorted. "More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.

Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

Look at the orators in our republics; as long as they are poor, both state and people can only praise their uprightness; but once they are fattened on the public funds, they conceive a hatred for justice, plan intrigues against the people and attack the democracy.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a danger we may take this freedom for granted. We must never forget it was bought for us at a great price. The brave and resourceful Americans whose sacrifices gained our Independence and preserved it for more than 200 years against formidable foes have set an example of unflinching loyalty to the ideal of liberty and justice for all.

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.