Justice Quotes - Page 91

I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.

Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt.

Beheading, burying and burning humans alive are extreme acts of cruelty. Such crimes against humanity must be investigated and the guilty parties brought to justice. May ALL victims rest in peace!

Of course, as a German, I wouldn't like to tell the American people how to handle their criminal justice.

Justice-seekers everywhere will celebrate Dunbar-Ortiz's unflinching commitment to truth-a truth that places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the United States.

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.

Many laws as certainly make men bad, as bad men make many laws.

It could well be the end of justice in America. Do not let Mr. Reagan get his hands on that court.

The first priority of humankind in this era is to establish an effective system of world law that will assure peace with justice among the peoples of the world.

Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!

Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their own imagination, their own curiosity and their own thirst for knowledge, and in the process, to achieve their own independence of mind and spirit.

Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's a permanent replay of jobs-versus-the-environment, in nature-versus-bread. These are extremely artificial dichotomies.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.

Don't be satisfied with just pumping blood.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.