Justice Quotes · Page 148

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The media likes stories. We like narratives. we don't like facts. We don't like justice.

— Will Cain

“Anyone with a form of godliness is promoting ungodliness, whether ignorantly or knowingly.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Rightly or wrongly, most Americans look at mortgage equity withdrawal as the closest thing to a free lunch.

— Paul McCulley

I'm someone very interested in diversity, equity, social justice, and getting rid of white supremacy.

— Michael Tubbs

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

— Anita Roddick

... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

— Robin Morgan

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

— Jonathan Edwards

“I hold that in every situation of injustice and oppression, the Christian--who cannot deal with it by violence--must make himself completely a…

— Jacques Ellul

Unless you have fixed costs, you don't need any capital to create a prototype. Ideally, your co-founders, with sweat equity, can create…

— Brian Chesky

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice…

— Horace Walpole

“I crossed the line.” “The line shifts.” Now he gave those shoulders a quick, impatient shake. “If the law, if justice has…

— J.D. Robb

All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that justice is on the side of the strong. The use…

— Theodore Bikel

The only government that I recognize--and it matters not how few are at the head of it, or how small its army--is…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we…

— Sharon Salzberg

I never place limits on the potential success of my students. If they're going into acting, they're going to win the Oscar...…

— Alan Dershowitz

Perhaps it will be found that to obtain a just republic (and it is to secure our just rights that we resort…

— Thomas Jefferson

I had reached the conclusion myself that sex was not a division but a continuum, that almost nobody was altogether of one…

— Jan Morris

Be critical of these institutions that we love, whether they be our sports teams or the criminal justice system. Be critical of…

— Andrea Pino

“There are two ways of life, one leading to righteousness, which brings happiness, and the other to unrighteousness, which produces misery. One…

— Arthur Findlay

The same educational process which inspires and stimulates the oppressor with the thought that he is everything and has accomplished everything worth…

— Carter G. Woodson

He only has freedom who ideally loves freedom himself and is glad to extend it to others. He who cares to have…

— Rabindranath Tagore

The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity…

— Baruch Spinoza

Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said that he could call down angels at…

— Philip Yancey

I'm a social justice supporter, but there is no social justice on a dead planet.

— Douglas Tompkins

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.

— Billy Graham

I felt that justice had been served and that the world was, in some way, a better place for all of us.

— James F. Amos

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

— Bruce Willis

“Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.

— Emilie Autumn

“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”

— Jane Addams

Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“This is not god Marco you hear me, only god makes justice.”

— Arthur Miller

Clem (Clementa Pinckney) understood that justice grows out of recognition of ourselves, in each other.

— Barack Obama

If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice.

— Daniel Cameron

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

— Marcus Aurelius

This is a Budget for Britain's future to secure fairness for each child and invest in every child

— Gordon Brown

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

— Neil Kinnock

“If we could renounce our benevolence and discard our righteousness, the people would again become filial and kindly.”

— Lao Tzu

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

— Martin Luther King, Jr