Justice Quotes - Page 35

Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality.

Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.

If you wish to know what justice is, let injustice pursue you.

Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

A theory deeply etched in our law [is that] a free society prefers to punish the few who abuse the rights of free speech after they break the law rather than to throttle them and all others beforehand.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

The art of subversion, of revolution, is to dislodge established customs by probing down to their origins in order to show how they lack authority and justice.

But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.

So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end.

As we talked of freedom and justice one day for all, we sat down to steaks. I am eating misery, I thought, as I took the first bite. And spit it out.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.

You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger? Only when free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and when it is needed it is most vital to justice.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

When it comes to consideration of how to do well in running the city, which must proceed entirely through justice and soundness of mind.

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.