Justice Quotes - page 7

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts. (Elihu Root)
The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice. View quote
Elihu Root
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice. View quote
Christopher Lasch
If we wish to substitute for war the settlement of disputes by justice, we must first substitute for the condition of international anarchy a condition of international order. View quote
Alfred Hermann Fried
The security of which we speak is to be attained by the development of international law through an international organization based on the principles of law and justice. View quote
Ludwig Quidde
Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. View quote
Wendell Berry
Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks. View quote
Bob Ney
The law has no compassion. And justice is administered without compassion. View quote
Christopher Darden
Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day. View quote
Fred F. Fielding
So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions. View quote
Godfrey Reggio
In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously. (Godfrey Reggio)
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world. View quote
Islom Karimov
Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom. View quote
Maria Weston Chapman
To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty. View quote
Stephen Breyer
If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade! View quote
Vivian Campbell
When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers. View quote
William Kunstler
Without Justice, no realm may prosper. View quote
Pythagoras
Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything. View quote
Pythagoras
Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico! View quote
José Martí
The moral faculties are generally esteemed, and with justice, as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should always bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This fact affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being. View quote
Charles Darwin
A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour. (Charles Darwin)
I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from. View quote
Robert Walpole
Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Justice is the greatest interest of man on earth. View quote
Daniel Webster
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for social security, general happiness and the improvement and progress of our race. View quote
Daniel Webster