Justice Quotes - Page 49

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Injustice wears ever the same harsh face wherever it shows itself.

'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it.

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

To all those who say they believe in God, please realize with faith that God hears every word you say. God hears your every thought. Realizing this, speak only what is truth and act only with God's qualities of love, compassion, justice, patience, and the realization that each life is as important as your own.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life.

We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.

Justice denied anywhere diminishes justice everywhere.

Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

He only is a true atheist to whom the predicates of the Divine Being - for example, love, wisdom and justice - are nothing.

Most lawyers who win a case advise their clients, "We have won," and when justice has frowned upon their cause ... "You have lost.

If you feel an aversion to a person--that is, an unexplainable feeling of dislike or distaste for him--it is the most dangerous time for a proper opinion of him, his character, or his actions. Any judgment you pass upon him at such a time is bound to be unfair.

We accept gods that don't speak to us. We accept gods that would place us in a world filled with injustices and do nothing as we struggle. It's easier than accepting that there's nothing out there at all, and that, in our darkest moments, we are truly alone.

The Justice of today is born of yesterday's pity.

When a woman gets the idea of justice, there's no teaching her any sense.

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

The International Court of Justice (a.k.a. World Court) is the judicial branch of the United Nations and in the early 1990's a campaign started and it was supported by civil society non-governmental groups around the world.

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.