Justice Quotes - Page 21

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

If you're just the person with power, exercising that power fearfully and angrily, you're going to be an operative of injustice and inequality.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Lofty talk about 'social justice' or 'fairness' boils down to greatly expanded powers for politicians, since those pretty words have no concrete definition. They are a blank check for creating disparities in power that dwarf disparities in income - and are far more dangerous.

Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.

Let no one be ashamed of the cross by which Christ has redeemed the world. None of us must be afraid to suffer for the sake of justice or doubt the fulfillment of the promises, for it is through toil that we come to rest and through death that we pass to life.

Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.

When we stand for social justice, we testify to the presence of the Kingdom.

My hope is that feminist, racial justice, reproductive rights and LGBT movements build a coalition that centers on the lives of women who lead intersectional lives and too often fall in between the cracks of these narrow mission statements.

I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that, where I was flying, made what I was doing spying.

Things do exist that are worth standing up for without compromise. To me it seems that peace and social justice are such things, as is Christ himself.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life

Act in such a way that your humility may not be weakness, nor your authority be severity. Justice must be accompanied by humility, that humility may render justice lovable.

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

Arbitration is justice blended with charity.

I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.

I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.