Justice Quotes - Page 76

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it -I absolutely just love it.

I want to commit the murder I was imprisoned for.

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

Old gardeners never die. They just spade away and then throw in the trowel.

The system of capitalism, of the market economy, is a system of freedom, of justice, of productivity. But these three virtues cannot be separated. Each flows out of the other.

I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a character, or any character, if I put my all into it. That's the choice you have to make.

Of all injustice that is the greatest which goes under the name of law.

I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

My conscience is clear, because I know that in my conscience and in front of God I am guilty of nothing. I hope human justice will see at the same way.

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

A man may stand for the justice of God, but a woman stands for His Mercy.

For men are not equal: thus speaks justice.

We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

You degrade us and then ask why we are degraded. You shut our mouths and ask why we don't speak. You close your colleges and seminaries against us and then ask why we don't know.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice.

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

And this we should believe: that hope and volition can bring us closer to our ultimate goal: justice for all, injustice for no-one.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

Natural justice is a compact resulting from expediency by which men seek to prevent one man from injuring others and to protect him from being injured by them.

The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.