Justice Quotes

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

~ Alan Dershowitz

When officers' actions violate their duty, justice should be served in accordance with our legal system.

~ Thom Tillis

Americans have grown a great deal more realistic about lawyers and the law. I think that's all for the good. A lot of people will say to you these days, 'If you are looking for justice, don't go to a courtroom.' That's just a more realistic perspective on what happens in the legal process.

~ Scott Turow

The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

~ Lee Kuan Yew

When I was a prosecutor in Kansas City, my job was to fight for justice and safety for all citizens in my community. Equal access to justice under the law is an American value embedded in the fabric of our legal and political system - the idea that anybody, powerful or not, can have their day in court.

~ Claire Mccaskill

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

~ Stockwell Day

The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion.

~ Christopher Darden

I began my legal career working for Byron White, the last Coloradan to serve on the Supreme Court, and the only justice to lead the N.F.L. in rushing. He was one of the smartest and most courageous men I've ever known.

~ Neil Gorsuch

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.

~ Albert Bushnell Hart

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

~ Lisa Scottoline

My job is to interpret the law based on how the legislature and the court has done it and then, of course, to use our system of justice to develop some new legal tools and new concepts.

~ Bill Scott

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

~ Arthur Baer

I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.

~ Amber Frey

I've always been driven by the concept of equal justice under the law, but only the rich can pay great sums of money for legal assistance and that puts them at an advantage over the poor.

~ Samuel Dash

Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

~ William Gaddis

True freedom requires the rule of law and justice, and a judicial system in which the rights of some are not secured by the denial of rights to others.

~ Jonathan Sacks

People are dying in vain because this country isn't holding their end of the bargain up as far as, you know, giving freedom and justice and liberty to everybody.

~ Colin Kaepernick

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.

~ David Suzuki

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

~ Teresa Heinz

Keep fighting for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

~ Molly Ivins

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.

~ Bryant H. Mcgill

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

~ Desmond Tutu

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

~ Molly Ivins

Women in most countries have not achieved much, because they can't be liberated under the patriarchal, capitalist, imperialist and military system that determines the way we live now, and which is governed by power, not justice, by false democracy, not real freedom.

~ Nawal El-Saadawi

Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don't believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.

~ Coretta Scott King

To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

~ George Ripley