Justice Quotes - page 6

What are the American ideals? They are the development of the individual for his own and the common good; the development of the individual through liberty, and the attainment of the common good through democracy and social justice. (Louis Brandeis)
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. View quote
George Mason
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. View quote
Gerry Spence
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. View quote
Charles Dickens
It is compassion rather than the principle of justice which can guard us against being unjust to our fellow men. View quote
Eric Hoffer
A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain: You cannot have either until you have both. View quote
Ramsey Clark
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages. View quote
Christopher Columbus
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery? View quote
Augustine of Hippo
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. (Aristotle)
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people Is there any better or equal hope in the world. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The severest justice may not always be the best policy. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature -- opposition to it on his love of justice. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
I want to say this to the television audience. I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service. I have earned every cent. And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life, that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got. View quote
Richard Nixon
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. View quote
Patricia Highsmith
How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! [...] Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light! View quote
Pu Songling
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. (Andrew Weil)
My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me. View quote
Phyllis Diller
We have failed to bring justice. We cannot build the future on injustice. View quote
F. W. de Klerk
Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries. View quote
Arthur Henderson
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation. View quote
Elie Ducommun