Justice Quotes · Page 59

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.

— Jose Marti

Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.

— William Shakespeare

Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.

— Honore Daumier

“Shall any man be above justice? Above all, shall that man be above it who can commit the most extensive injustice?”

— Andrew McCarthy

To threaten the institution is to threaten fair administration of justice and protection of liberty.

— Stephen Breyer

Fight their mutual disputes to the Court not to reach or to wait for justice in your life will fall shorT

— Mak_786

There's so much that I learned about systemic racism, the history of racial injustice.

— Rick Carlisle

Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of…

— David A. Morse

Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American

— Ronald Reagan

The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause,…

— William Godwin

“She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food…

— Joseph Heller

We cannot defeat the deadly coronavirus, rebuild our economy, achieve social justice and repair our planet without choosing people over politics.

— Tom Suozzi

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the…

— Miroslav Volf

Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight…

— John Peter Altgeld

So the people will pay the penalty for their kings' presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous…

— Hesiod

Once (says an Author; where I need not say) Two Trav'lers found an Oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry; the…

— Pope Alexander VI

“She would have wished for the suffering of Africa to be relieved, to be legislated out of existence, but it seemed that…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“It must have been law that developed in man the sense of just and unjust, right and wrong. Our readers may judge…

— Peter Kropotkin

We will never know peace in the world without balance. And we will never know balance without justice for all. Yet, justice…

— Suzy Kassem

The evolution of culture is ultimately determined by the amount of love, understanding and freedom experienced by its children... Every abandonment, every…

— Lloyd deMause

“ 'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we…

— Katherine Addison

Like the effects of industrial pollution and the new system of global financial markets, the AIDS crisis is evidence of a world…

— Susan Sontag

“The world you are in – Is the true hell. The journey to Truth itself Is what quickens the heart to become…

— Suzy Kassem

“Justice rises the moment fear deserts the weak and finally finds the powerful.”

— Anurag Shrivastava

We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

— Sydney J. Harris

He who treats his friends and enemies alike, has neither love nor justice.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!”

— Bernard of Clairvaux

May your appalling St. Patrick's Day behavior not end up in a massive viral video demanding you be brought to justice.

— Anonymous

“It is a compulsion, a spell we are all experiencing, the need to see justice done and someone put to death.”

— John Ellsworth

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

— Johann Arndt

One of the injustices of the world was that it was so easy to make the innocent and caring ones happy with…

— Alexandra Ripley

“But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” (5:24).”

— Anonymous

In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.

— Kofi Annan

Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.

— J. B. Morton

I don't want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest.

— Remi Kanazi

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

— Thomas Aquinas

Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:10

— Bible

If one does not like the crime, cruelty, injustice and violence of this society, he CAN do something about it.

— L. Ron Hubbard

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

— Matthew Arnold