Justice Quotes

A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist.
Sophocles

Soul, Discovers, Intends

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov

Love, Humanity, Reason

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.
David Herbert Lawrence

Change, Ethics, Principles

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.
Mason Cooley

Before, Might, Mercy

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Politics, Sad, Duty

If you want peace work for justice.
Pope Paul VI

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Thomas Aquinas

Friendship, Science, Moral

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
Alice Walker

Respect, Try, Put

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Men, Live, Find

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Education, Men, Fact

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.
Epicurus

Men, Between, Abstract

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Thomas Aquinas

Mind, Him, Ought

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
Laurie Anderson

Love, Mom, Gone

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
William Penn

Lives, Pay, Property

There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice.
Kurt Huber

Law, Against, Point

You see, Africa makes a fool of our idea of justice. It makes a farce of our idea of equality. It mocks our pieties. It doubts our concern. It questions our commitment. Because there is no way we can look at what's happening in Africa, and if we're honest, conclude that it would ever be allowed to happen anywhere else.
Bono

Equality, Fool, Happen

I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it's difficult for 'poor people' - poor white people, brown people - to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are.
Henry Louis Gates

Great, Racism, Law

There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Long, Gun, Stand

As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
John Stuart Mill

Fight, Long, Human

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.
Andrea Dworkin

Women, Men, Freedom

There is a point at which even justice does injury.
Sophocles

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.
Horace Walpole

Truth, Lie, Others

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.
Gary Oldman

Family, Good, Courage

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover Cleveland

Success, Government, Themselves

Yet, when child sex offenders are brought to justice and serve time for their offenses, they are often released into unsuspecting communities and left free to resume their sexual attacks.
Bob Ney

Time, Sex, Free

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil

Society, Crime, Modern

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
Zack de la Rocha

Great, Care, Young

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Life, Love, Family

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
Annie Lennox

Men, Powerful, Fight

There is a time when even justice brings harm.
Sophocles

Time, Harm, Brings

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