Justice Quotes · Page 83

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.

— Mel Torme

“Gods don’t come down in life to mete out justice. The powerful do it.”

— Pierce Brown

“For the wanting to be good,in defiance of justice, is one of mankind's greatest weaknesses.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

— Anonymous

“Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.”

— Unsure of origin

This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips.

— William Shakespeare

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

— Eldridge Cleaver

The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!

— Malcolm X

“I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their…

— Andre Dubus

“My own attitude to the innumerable injustices of life has always been a philosophical one, especially when they have tended to operate…

— Auberon Waugh

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who…

— Michele Bachmann

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient…

— Maximilien Robespierre

“As Elie Wiesel noted, “Although we today are not responsible for the injustices of the past, we are responsible for the way…

— Phyllis Goldstein

But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's…

— Nigella Lawson

It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part…

— Teresa of Avila

“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them…

— Shannon L. Alder

“Equity bids us be merciful to the weakness of human nature; to think less about the laws than about the man who…

— Aristotle

“What's the difference between a woman and a psycho? A woman you can see coming a mile away (both on the streets…

— Dave Matthes

When I rather guiltily read the books on which the TV series 'Game Of Thrones' is based, I was struck by one…

— Peter Hitchens

We must, with God's help, eradicate the deadly poison of the demon of anger from the depths of our souls. So long…

— John Cassian

When governments go too far to punish people for actions that are dissent rather than a real threat to the nation, they…

— Edward Snowden

But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise…

— Bill Moyers

The Holy Scriptures...can alone secure to society order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability,…

— James McHenry

If money doesn't come with misery, then it's not at all interesting and it's not at all fair. It seems if you…

— Lawrence Douglas

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

— Jane Addams

Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.

— Ivan Klíma

Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.

— James Madison

Sometimes it takes a child to raise a village - or to take down an injustice.

— Craig Kielburger

The social pressure from friend and acquaintance to collude, to not notice racism, can be quite powerful.

— Beverly Daniel Tatum

For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

— Mark Helprin

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.

— Che Guevara

The only reason why I tied up with the BJP was that Andhra Pradesh wasn't done justice during the bifurcation.

— N. Chandrababu Naidu

Loving someone is a good feeling but loving someone who doesn't love you is like bringing justice to the unjustice

— Duncan Ramashitja

Civilized nations are ones that simply can't endure wrongs or injustice except at home

— Joseph Anderson

“Freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice; socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality”

— Bakunin

Even the laws of justice themselves cannot subsist without mixture of injustice.

— Ambrose Bierce

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

— Miguel de Cervantes

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

— Albert Einstein

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

— Mason Cooley

Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.

— H. L. Mencken