Justice Quotes

I care not for the body which may rot. Yet, for the transgression of the spirit, of moral ethics, of life, liberty and the soul itself, I must and shall cross the line of battle or lose the very reason not to.

~ The Great Pacifist

the Reagan years produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent...while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent.Chain Reaction, 23

~ Thomas B. Edsall

Justice is rendering each killer that which is his due.

~ Mark M. Derobertis

True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

~ N.k. Jemisin

Justice isn’t about fixing the past, it’s about healing the past's future.

~ Jackson Burnett

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

~ Michael Connelly

THERE IS NO JUSTICE said Death JUST ME

~ Terry Pratchett

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

~ Mark Helprin

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.

~ B.r. Ambedkar

Freedom is not an abstaction, nor is a little of it enough. A little more is not enough either. Having less, being less, empoverished in freedom and rights, women then invariably have less self-respect: less self-respect than any human being needs to live a brave and honest life.

~ Andrea Dworkin

If a theory of justice is to guide reasoned choice of policies, strategies or institutions, then the identification of fully just social arrangements is neither necessary nor sufficient.

~ Amartya Sen

Sometimes evil wins, nah, child. But it’s always fleeting. Just a temporary ripple in a sea of goodness, brought on by the carnal nature of greed ’n corruption. Sacrifice washes that ripple out in waves of love ’n light, and peace is found when justice is served, even for those who lose, ya hear?

~ Rachael Wade

In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others.

~ Benjamin Harrison

Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to cleanse us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky

~ Catherine Mackinnon

Remember, what goes around comes around, if you give out venom, sooner or later it will come back to poison you

~ Theemoqueen

Perhaps pondering words is also a form of seeking justice. If a monologue can invite a chorus, then perhaps it can speak for others as well.

~ Duo Duo

Justice can readily do her job blindfolded; she cannot function gagged and deafened, least of all when the means of gagging and deafening her are not remarked.

~ Markham Shaw Pyle

Bfore Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

~ Michael Walzer

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

~ Michael Walzer

Stop the poverty! Where do they think they are going?!

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

And Englishmen like posing as gods.

~ E.m. Forster

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention; and what we term justice is truly nothing but this equilibrium transformed, as honey is nothing but a transformation of the sweetness found in the flower. Outside man there is no justice; within him injustice cannot be.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to desire an external justice, since we know that it does not exist. Let that which is in us suffice. All is for ever being weighed and judged in our soul. It is we who shall judge ourselves; or rather, our happiness is our judge.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

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

~ George

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

~ Plato

I retired from public Business from a thorough Conviction that it was not in my Power to do any Good, and very much disgusted with Measures, which appeared to me inconsistent with common Policy and Justice.

~ George Mason

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

~ Winston Churchill

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

~ Martin Luther King

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

~ Peter Jackson

Satan tries to counterfeit the work of God, and by doing this, he may deceive many. To make us lose hope, feel miserable like himself, and believe that we are beyond forgiveness, Satan might even misuse words from the scriptures that emphasize the justice of God in order to imply that there is no mercy.

~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

~ Corazon Aquino

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

~ John Berger

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

~ George W. Bush

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.

~ Hideki Tojo

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

~ Georg Simmel

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

~ Max Nordau

We do believe that freedom, the right to choose, the right to vote, respect and justice is the fundamental right of all people. All people must obtain these rights.

~ Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.

~ Ferdinand Buisson

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

~ Alice Walker

I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.

~ Mario Monti