Best 4420 quotes in «justice quotes» category

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

--"There is no justice in love...it is only the glimpse or parable of an incomprehensible reality... the eternal breaking in on the the temporal.

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by quoting from Webster.

There is no news value to the content of those [Newtown 911] tapes. The actual audio is of no news value at all, unless you want the thrill of hearing the sound of the actual individual gunshot that might have killed a 7 year-old.

There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it.

There is no peace without justice, and no justice without forgiveness.

There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

There is no more certain sign of a narrow mind, of stupidity, and of arrogance, than to stand aloof from those who think differently from us.

There is no more important measure of a people than how carefully and faithfully they attend to the wellbeing of their children. The CJC has it right. True justice begins today with the children, or there is no hope of justice tomorrow for the world.

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.

There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court.

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.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men in their various relations with each other, in whatever circumstances they may be, that they will neither injure nor be injured.

There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

There is not a sentence in the world that could respectfully do justice to the life and music of Jerry Garcia.

There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

There is one universal law that has been formed, or at least adoptedby the majority of mankind. That law is justice. Justice forms the cornerstone of each nation's law.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.

There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice.

There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its representative body, and if there is no clash of convictions in it.

There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice.

There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable truce.

... there must be reserves -- except with God. The human soul is solitary. But for confession that is different; justice and reparation sometimes demand it; but, again, justice and courage sometimes forbid it.

There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

There's a reason survivors choose not to go to the police, and that's because they're treated as the criminals. The rapists are innocent until proven guilty, but survivors are guilty until proven innocent - at least in the eyes of the police.

There's an ethic that says: 'You don't run off to the church for the sacraments of salvation, you establish a personal relationship with God. You don't run off to the courts for justice, you settle it yourself. You don't run off to labor unions to sort out your work relations, you can take this job and shove it if you don't like what you're doing.

there's no justice, there's only love.

There's no place for mob justice in Afghanistan.

There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice. That's why the founding fathers wrote it up the way they did, I suppose. Life. Liberty. Pursuit of happiness. Everyone is entitled to those things.

There's times when I just have to quit thinking... and the only way I can quit thinking is by shopping.

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 was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

There's a difference between logic and what maybe people see when they're presented evidence and justice and that they're not always together.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

There's no necessary connection between maximizing social utility or economic wealth and creating a flourishing democracy. The first does not guarantee the second. The only way to create a flourishing democracy is to find ways to reason together about the big questions, including hard questions about justice and the common good, to reason together about these questions so that we as citizens can decide how to shape the forces that govern our lives.