Justice Quotes

We all want to live in a world where we can make a difference... That's why Spider-Man fights the good fight. Or Captain Marvel. Or me. Or... There are a lot of us. And we don't all wear masks these days. Iron Man went public. So did Captain America. Others. Probably because it's harder to keep secrets in an internet surveillance age. But I think some of it, too, is that the ethical paradox can wear you down. No one on the white-hat side has ever hidden his or her identity with less than noble intent: to make the fight about something bigger than us. To represent a greater justice, where the focus can be on right and wrong... and not on whether the bad guys will exact reprisal on those close to us. And sometimes you have to lie... because you can justify a lie if lives are riding on it. Even as you fight for, as the saying goes, truth and justice... even if you're a lawyer who has sworn to live by the truth... you willingly bear false witness.

~ Mark Waid

If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.

~ Laura Ruby

How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?''I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is your own guilt clamoring in your ears.

~ Cinda Williams Chima

As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but some of us struggle when it comes to the business of providing a competent lawyer to guarantee said fair trial. Lawyers like me live with the question “But how do you represent such scum?”I offer a quick “Someone has to” as I walk away.Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.It’s just as well that we don’t believe in fair trials because we damned sure don’t have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let’s get him off the streets.

~ John Grisham

Justice is not an easy battle to win; some get to the fact, some get fucked.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low--or no--expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.

~ Jacqueline Novogratz

Be fair, just and kind.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In contexts of colonial oppression, intellectuals, especially those who advocate and work for justice, cannot be just-or mere- intellectuals, in the abstract sense; they cannot but be immersed in some form or another of activism, to learn from fellow activists through real-life experiences, to widen the horizons of their sources of inspiration, and to organically engage in effective, collective emancipatory processes, without the self-indulgence, complacency, or ivory-towerness that might otherwise blur their moral vision. In short, to be just intellectuals, committed to justice as the most ethical and durable foundation of peace.

~ Omar Barghouti

In response to this fatal alliance of savage capitalism in the West with Israeli racism, exclusion and colonial subjugation, the global movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel presents not only a progressive, anti racist [3], sophisticated, sustainable, moral and effective form of civil non-violent resistance, but also a real chance of becoming the political catalyst and moral anchor for a strengthened, reinvigorated international social movement capable of reaffirming the rights of all humans to freedom, equality and dignity and the right of nations to self determination.

~ Omar Barghouti

Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.

~ Plato

Law is for everyone, justice is for few.

~ Sercan Leylek

Law and justice are not the same.

~ John Connolly

Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone.

~ Suzy Kassem

Stand up for what is fair against the unfair.

~ Suzy Kassem

You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong.

~ Suzy Kassem

Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.

~ Criss Jami

The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't feel guilty all the time. Maybe it is more along these lines: We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time.

~ Paul Kalanithi

If changing judges changes law, then it is not clear what law is.

~ Judge Richard A. Posner

A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it.-Detective Thanet.

~ Dorothy Simpson

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

~ Bryan Stevenson

One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation.

~ Kahlil Gibran

His sense of “justice” had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement, a perfect way to reverse the presumption of innocence.

~ Kenneth Eade

It might not seem self-evident that impunity for white violence against blacks would engender black-on-black murder. But when people are stripped of legal protection and placed in desperate straits, they are more, not less, likely to turn on each other. Lawless settings are terrifying; if people can do whatever they want to each other, there are always enough bullies to make it ugly. Americans are nostalgic for the village setting and hold dear the notion of community, so the idea that the oppressed do not band together in solidarity is counter to our myths. But community spawns communal justice; the village gives rise to the feud.

~ Jill Leovy

America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our otherachievements amount to nothing.

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help.

~ Wendell Berry

Are you the sum total of your worst acts?

~ Bryan Stevenson

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.

~ William Shakespeare

Don’t seem right, do it?” said Topper. “It ain’t right,” replied Fin. “Not at all.” Jack guzzled his wine and wiped at his beard. “Mayhap it’s right and we can’t see it...” Topper scratched his bald head and hummed in thought. “Still don’t seem right,” he proclaimed when he’d hummed enough. Jack dropped his flagon to the deck and it rolled away clattering. “Yeah, well, what seems ain’t always what is.

~ A.s. Peterson

Deserve better...if only...they just had...thrones...

~ Rick Riordan

Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them

~ Gregory David Roberts

Revised regulations will never suppress federal workplace retaliation; nor will it cure the inaction of an EEOC official when justice demands fair, prompt and judicious decision-making.

~ Tanya Ward Jordan

To be just, a law has to be flexible.

~ Gloria Steinem

Because what you and others like you have forgotten or never known is that the responsibility of the strong is to nurture and protect the weak, not take advantage.

~ D.r. Ranshaw

He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.

~ John Willis Zumwalt

One reason current discussions of justice are so impoverished is that our heterogeneous society does not have many shared texts. Shakespeare's plays are among the few secular texts that remain common enough and complex enough to sustain these conversation. His answers to our dilemmas may not bear on all points. Yet they teach us not to underestimate the action of the flower.

~ Kenji Yoshino

Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.

~ Bryan Stevenson

Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparation from him that has done it: and any other person, who finds it just, may also join with him that is injured, and assist him in recovering from the offender so much as may make satisfaction for the harm he has suffered.

~ John Locke

Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone they want. And we all ugly people will wait holding our dicks in our hands.

~ M.f. Moonzajer