Justice Quotes - Page 23

My guiding principle will be justice and complete impartiality, and I am sure that with your support and co-operation, I can look forward to Pakistan becoming one of the greatest Nations of the world.

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

The most significant life is the one lived on the basis of a personal sense of justice and the desire to see justice realized everywhere.

We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice.

...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without structured assistance and compassionate help.

The true measure of the justice of a system is the amount of protection it guarantees to the weakest.

When the passion of the mystic for God is married to the passion of the activist for justice, a new fire is born.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain't I a woman?

My cause was justice, not vengeance. My work is for a better tomorrow and a more secure future for our children and grandchildren.

If you can't eliminate injustice, at least tell everyone about it.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.

We don't go anywhere. Going somewhere is for squares. We just go!

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.

Where do you draw the line between peace and justice? If you ask the victims, they want more justice; if you ask the potential victims, they want more peace.

If I have to, I can do anything.

Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.

If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.