Justice Quotes · Page 76

Government was intended to suppress injustice, but its effect has been to embody and perpetuate it.

— William Godwin

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

— Orson Scott Card

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence

— Jean-Paul Sartre

If you want peace, work for justice. If you want justice, defend life. If you want life, embrace truth.

— Pope John Paul II

I've had family members entangled with the criminal justice system.

— Ritchie Torres

Fairness dictates that the highest income people should pay the greatest share of taxes, and they do.

— Mitt Romney

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers

— Bible

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Mat 6:33***”

— Adam Houge

The British people have a global outlook, they are generous, and when they see suffering and injustice they are motivated to act.

— Penny Mordaunt

It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are…

— Terry Pratchett

Since the September 11 attacks, nearly 400 individuals have been arrested by the Justice Department as a result of ongoing investigations into…

— Jo Bonner

I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world's soul, I am the dialogue between my Self and el…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Unfortunately, the inhumanity of health injustice still persists. The war we came to Chicago to fight so many years ago rages on.…

— Anonymous

I don't think I could have - and I wouldn't have wanted to - write a book about climate change that wasn't…

— Tatiana Schlossberg

The violence and injustice of the rulers of mankind is an ancient evil, for which, I am afraid, the nature of human…

— Adam Smith

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all…

— John Adams

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas -…

— Isaiah Berlin

“There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking to humanity,…

— Thomas Paine

If we are to live with our feet on the ground, in touch with reality, we must help one another accept the…

— Carter Heyward

“They all knew the verdict in advance and they knew its reason; no other reason had existed for years, where no standards,…

— Ayn Rand

It was a very interesting experience. You know, I don't think words could do it justice. Roseanne [Barr] is a comedian, a…

— Jill Stein

I explain to you, exactly and truly, how we are circumstanced. A greater portion of our means is unavailable, consisting of a…

— Mary Todd Lincoln

Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of…

— Patrick Henry

f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Yes, I thought. Confidence. More than equity, more than liquidity, that’s what a man needs. I”

— Phil Knight

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

— Patricia Highsmith

Wild Goose exemplifies how the Evangelical Left translates 'social justice' into Big Government and pacifism.

— Mark Tooley

“How can you expect humans to be fair, if life itself is unfair!”

— Mouloud Benzadi

Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.

— Anonymous

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

— Anonymous

A poor man has no need of justice and a rich man has no need of character.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.”

— Clarence Darrow

I am probably the biggest equity investor in the history of modern Russia.

— Alexander Lebedev

Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

— William Shakespeare

God judges when one generation fails its responsibility to pass on righteousness to the next.

— John MacArthur

“There is no greater enemy to justice than a little king on a little hill.”

— Delilah S. Dawson

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

— Brad Thor

“Something must be done!’ ‘It’s because you don’t live here,’ Blago snorted. ‘You still believe in justice.”

— Kapka Kassabova

I started a private equity fund and we invest in energy, mining, agriculture kind of things in Africa.

— Erik Prince

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.

— Jose Marti