Justice Quotes - Page 59

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

Those who are repeatedly passive in the face of injustice soon find their character corroded.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda.

On the chessboard, if nowhere else, justice does triumph.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a black woman, seh's in deep trouble.

The Supreme Court would benefit from the addition of a justice who has real experience as a practicing lawyer. The current justices have all been chosen from the lower federal courts. A nominee with relevant non-judicial experience would bring a different and useful perspective to the court.

It is brave to be involved

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

We're not into nation-building. We're into justice.

I have come to feel strongly that the greatest service I can still render to my fellow men would be that I could make the speakers and writers among them thoroughly ashamed ever again to employ the term "social justice.

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.

God has ordained the state as a delegated authority; it is not autonomous. The state is to be an agent of justice, to restrain evil by punishing the wrongdoer, and to protect the good in society. When it does the reverse, it has no proper authority. It is then a usurped authority and as such it becomes lawless and is tyranny.

There is no such thing as justice or injustice among those beasts that cannot make agreements not to injure or be injured. This is also true of those tribes that are unable or unwilling to make agreements not to injure or be injured.

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

All the words that George Bush used in public during the early stages of the crisis - "wanted, dead or alive," "a crusade," etc. - suggest not so much an orderly and considered progress towards bringing the man to justice according to international norms, but rather something apocalyptic, something of the order of the criminal atrocity itself. That will make matters a lot, lot worse, because there are always consequences.

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.

As a youngster and being a Latina, you see so much injustice.