Justice Quotes - Page 50

Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.

Lawyers are operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.

. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

'Perfect justice rules the world' for the Powers that are superior to us know the whole life of the Soul and all its' former lives.

But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.

And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind.

Justice has nothing to do with victor nations and vanquished nations, but must be a moral standard that all the world's peoples can agree to. To seek this and to achieve it - that is true civilization

Let me say no more. Words do no justice to the hidden meaning. Everything immediately becomes slightly different when it is expressed in words, a little bit distorted, a little foolish...It is perfectly fine with me that what for one man is precious wisdom for another sounds like foolery.

The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another.

Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning.

What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: A day that reveals to him, more than all other days of the year, the gross injustices and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him your celebration is a sham.

It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

Let us now peruse our ancient authors, for out of the old fields must come the new corn.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

If there is wrong, you don't say we have to get rid of it gradually. If injustice exists, you need to eliminate it immediately.

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

Life is nothing in itself. It’s a place marker that proves who’s winning, and we are the winners. We are always the winners. There is nothing but the winning. Even winning means nothing. We win because it’s an insult to lose. The ends don’t justify the means. The means don’t justify the ends. There is no one to justify to. There is no justice.” ~ Durzo Blint

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human society would stand still or retrogress.

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

I care nothing for all the political parties in the world except as they stand for justice.

If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the nation advanced, the ends of government are accomplished . . .

And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply: Not for the time being; at any rate, not up to this Friday.

Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.