Justice Quotes · Page 67

“Doing justice” meant not only “not doing wrong,” but also actively doing right and restoring what is broken.”

— Jessica Nicholas

“The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.”

— Victor Hugo

“Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.”

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

If we expect others to rely on our fairness and justice we must show that we rely on their fairness and justice.

— Calvin Coolidge

Imagine if everyone spoke out about injustices. We would be in a better place, I think.

— Leigh-Anne Pinnock

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

— Banksy

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

— Ally Condie

“True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to…

— Robert McAfee Brown

His Holiness brings a wealth of experience to this exalted office. The United Nations and the Holy See share a strong commitment…

— Kofi Annan

To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting…

— Pedro Arrupe

Laws must be justified by something more than the will of the majority. They must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness.

— Amity Shlaes

I feel there are injustices in the world that I'll stand up for, and I think that it's important to realize that…

— Goldie Hawn

I wanted a racially just society. I wanted to end wars. I wanted to end white supremacy. I wanted to create a…

— Bill Ayers

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

— Jeremy Bentham

But when one masters this wretched desire, which is so hard to overcome, then one's sorrows just drop off, like a drop…

— Gautama Buddha

“There is the kind of peace that is built on power, lies, and silence. Then there is peace that is built on…

— VD

If I look back, the one thing that I am proud of is that for once I as a political leader, kept…

— Frederik Willem de Klerk

Ajamu Baraka is a human rights advocate and an international human rights advocate, who's been defending racial justice, economic justice, worker justice,…

— Jill Stein

“Romans 3:19-26. To help us examine that passage, I will quote it here in its entirety. Now we know that whatever the…

— Jerry Bridges

“There are secularised cultures, but at the core of all of them, the spirit of Tradition remains, religious or otherwise. By defending…

— Alexander Dugin

My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own…

— Zhuangzi

[I]t is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that it was laid down in the time…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear…

— John Stuart Mill

Since my daughter is only half-Jewish, could she go in the water up to her knees?

— Groucho Marx

“What does the Lord God requires of us: To love what is good. To do justice. To do what is right.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

— Abbie Hoffman

“If loss makes you doubt your belief in justice, then you never truly believed in justice at all.”

— Gail Simone

Justice is the well water of the city of/ Novgorod, black and sweet

— Robert Hass

PIRACY, n. Commerce without its folly-swaddles, just as God made it.

— Ambrose Bierce

I hope we follow Mr. Snowden to the ends of the Earth to bring him to justice.

— Lindsey Graham

It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.

— Murray Rothbard

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

— Mark Helprin

As a Sagittarius, Honesty, justice and keeping your word are the most highly regarded traits in you.

— Anonymous

“I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.”

— Lewis Tappan

“The world is in the form of justice, only then is there the Absolute Supreme Soul (Parmatma).”

— Dada Bhagwan

... class differences in health represent a double injustice: life is short where its quality is poor.

— Richard G. Wilkinson

The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.

— Ayelet Shaked

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered.

— John Oliver Killens

“desire to rectify all injustice that I may have done to individuals,”

— Ulysses S. Grant