Justice Quotes - Page 7

There was an old man with a beard, who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, four larks and a wren have all built their nests in my beard.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Charity is no substitute for justice. If we never challenge a social order that allows some to accumulate wealth--even if they decide to help the less fortunate--while others are short-changed, then even acts of kindness end up supporting unjust arrangements. We must never ignore the injustices that make charity necessary, or the inequalities that make it possible.

In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Liberty, Humanity, Justice, Equality

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

Justice is not a flexible tool. Unless we all do our part to ensure that justice is applied equally to all human beings, we are a party to its abuse. We must stand together to protect the rights of others.

It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, . . . neither persons nor property will be safe.

Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.

The weak are always anxious for justice and equality. The strong pay no heed to either.

America has the laws and the material resources it takes to insure justice for all its people. What it lacks is the heart, the humanity.

Justice is the soul of the universe.

'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.

Justice is doing for others what we would want done for us.

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

I don’t hold with equality in all things only with equality before the law and nothing more.

Racism is so universal in this country, so widespread and deepseated, that it is invisible because it is so normal.

Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.

The existence of any pure race with special endowments is a myth, as is the belief that there are races all of whose members are foredoomed to eternal inferiority.

Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness. [Rather] it is looking for condemned, guilty, speechless and helpless men whom it may save, sanctify and glorify.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.