Justice Quotes - page 12

Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work ... for instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie. (Patricia Rozema)
When human statecraft attaches a chain to the feet of a free man, whom it makes a slave in contempt of nature and citizenship, eternal justice rivets the other end about the tyrant's neck. View quote
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
I am certain, however, that those responsible for the murder of millions of Germans will never be brought to justice. View quote
Adolf Eichmann
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Millions like me in Russia want a free press, the rule of law, social justice, and free and fair elections. My new job is to fight for those people and to fight for these fundamental rights. View quote
Garry Kasparov
I have observed in foolish awe The dateless mid-days of the law And seen indifferent justice done By everyone on everyone. View quote
Edwin Muir
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 a.m. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city. View quote
Herb Caen
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. View quote
Horace Walpole
He (George W. Bush) is going in the wrong way. And I dare say, that is what the strategy of his administration is, is just to wipe out government's purpose for any social and economic justice at all. View quote
Dennis Kucinich
If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop. View quote
Glenn Beck
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. (Walter Cronkite)
I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life. View quote
Davy Crockett
Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess. View quote
Davy Crockett
I decided this early on at Justice: if the traditional way was the most effective way of doing something, then we'd maintain it. But if it was not functioning at optimum levels, we would be doing the country a disservice by continuing to do things "like we've always done them." View quote
John Ashcroft
To summarize: Americans have one of the greatest legal systems, but not a monopoly of the sense of justice, which is universal; nor have we a permanent copyright on the means of securing justice, for it is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. View quote
Earl Warren
The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity - these are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis. View quote
Aga Khan IV
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. View quote
Chuck Jones
The Chief Justice was rich, quiet, and infamous. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Compassion is no substitute for justice. View quote
Rush Limbaugh
Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice. View quote
William McIlvanney
Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience. (Alfred Denning, Baron Denning)
Islam emphasized the internal purity of man that is achieved through the purity of the mind in realizing the Right and the purity of feelings through having the pure intention towards man, far away from the meanness of malevolence and hatred and through the purity of the movement that is not lunched except for the sake of justice, Good and life. View quote
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
The pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom. View quote
Abraham Isaac Kook
I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down. View quote
Enoch Powell
Political and social justice requires, not the disintegration of a country and destruction or humiliation of a class which shows initiative, intelligence and drive, but equality of opportunity for all, genuine freedom for self-fulfilment, in which all men irrespective of caste or creed may share. View quote
Syama Prasad Mookerjee