Justice Quotes

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

Life, Nature, Done

I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
Queen Elizabeth II

Heart, Battle, Give

Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Human, Different

Everybody should want to make sure that we have the cyber tools necessary to investigate cyber crimes, and to be prepared to defend against them and to bring people to justice who commit it.
Janet Reno

Against, Sure, Everybody

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.
Dennis Prager

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
Jesse Jackson

Today, Important, America

I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.
Jesse Jackson

Peace, End, Someone

Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Woman, Joy, Her

My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Job, Enough, Nation

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.
Sachin Tendulkar

Life, Family, Time

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

Evil, Path, Her

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.
Elias Canetti

Food, Enough, Everyone

The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Alfred North Whitehead

Bad, Used, Times

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
Chuck Jones

Hard, Tell, Off

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
Bell Hooks

Racism, Social, Criticism

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Bell Hooks

Love, Greatest, Country

For all my years in public life, I have believed that America must sail toward the shores of liberty and justice for all. There is no end to that journey, only the next great voyage. We know the future will outlast all of us, but I believe that all of us will live on in the future we make.
Edward Kennedy

Life, Great, Future

What I am for is justice for everyone, just like it says in the Constitution.
Richard Pryor

Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover

Law, Order, Incidental

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
Islom Karimov

Life, Good, Live

Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.
Michel Foucault

Work, Society, Means

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
William Allen White

Peace, God, Heart

Together we can and must fight for justice for our children and protect them from draconian tax cuts and budget choices that threaten their survival, education and preparation for the future. If they are not ready for tomorrow, neither is America.
Marian Wright Edelman

Education, Future, Fight

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.
Marian Wright Edelman

Freedom, Different, Wanted

Well, I believe that when you are confirming a United States Supreme Court Justice, that it really isn't Democratic or Republican; it's American.
Arlen Specter

American, Republican, United

The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.
Arlen Specter

Important, Pretty, Sometimes

Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they would their corpulent princes.
James Buchan

Peace, Middle, East

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Georg Simmel

Life, Respect, Nothing

God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
Robert Browning

God, Until, Though

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.
David Zucker

Life, God, Maybe

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