Justice Quotes · Page 113

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

— Eric Hoffer

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

— Mark Helprin

The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

— Confucius

Redemption is prior to righteousness. You cannot be righteous until you are first redeemed,

— Ravi Zacharias

“Yeah, people love to see justice done,” he grumbled. “But only if it’s not being done to them.”

— John Anthony Curran

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!

— Bertolt Brecht

Retributive justice is one that says clobber him or clobber her because they clobbered me. So it emphasizes punishment.

— Desmond Tutu

I've seen signs of life with regards to bipartisan support for criminal justice reform, but the support does not reflect the necessary…

— Malcolm Jenkins

Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.”

— James Allen

No, feminism isn't 'over.' We need it not only to challenge injustice but because the whole gender expectations thing is bad for…

— Robert Webb

Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you…

— Washington Allston

We need a tough approach to make justice prevail and, also, because sports should not be damaged by the violence of hooligans.

— Frans Timmermans

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts…

— Charles Spurgeon

I started out young and idealistic, and it was all about social justice and fair distribution of resources. I didn't understand why…

— John Mackey

“For every group, malevolence is always somewhere else. Maybe we understand at this point in history that it can occur at night…

— Anna Salter

It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme…

— Natalie Portman

Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of…

— William McKinley

“Poetic justice, with her lifted scale, Where, in nice balance, truth with gold she weighs, And solid pudding against empty praise. Here…

— Alexander Pope

I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the…

— Steve Erickson

Jesus' life and words are a challenge at the same time that they are Good News. They are a challenge to those…

— Cesar Chavez

Women's rights in essence is really a movement for freedom, a movement for equality, for the dignity of all women, for those…

— William Ruckelshaus

“Oxfam stated, “Climate change was first seen as a scientific problem, then an economic one. Now we must also see it as…

— Sheila Watt-Cloutier

You want the world-class players playing at the World Cup, and you want them to do themselves justice.

— Andrew Robertson

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

At the end of the day, my responsibility is to provide facts and truth and represent and stand up for justice.

— Daniel Cameron

If there are gods, why is the world so full of pain and injustice?' 'Because of men like you.

— Anonymous

“If history teaches anything it is that there can be no peace without equilibrium and no justice without restraint.”

— Henry Kissinger

Fairness is giving all people the treatment they earn and deserve. It doesn't mean treating everyone alike.

— John Wooden

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

— Edmund Burke

“God loves justice and He desires mankind to love the same.”

— Sunday Adelaja

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

— Abraham Lincoln

“In justice lies the sweetest fragrance of liberty, in injustice abides the most painful death.”

— Tejumade Oke

Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“If one were to protest all the injustices of life,” says Sigrud, “great and small, one would have no time for living.”

— Robert Jackson Bennett

“There can be no greater motivator for evil than a huge sense of injustice!”

— Bill Ward

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

— Marcus Aurelius

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

— Julian Baggini

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson