Justice Quotes - page 3

Words like "freedom," "justice," "democracy" are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. People are not born knowing what these are. It takes enormous and, above all, individual effort to arrive at the respect for other people that these words imply. (James Baldwin)
The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe. View quote
Roger Zelazny
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important. View quote
Earl Warren
Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
The price of justice is eternal publicity. View quote
Arnold Bennett
A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. View quote
Francis Bacon
Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear. View quote
Karl Kraus
The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. View quote
Denis Diderot
There is no such thing as justice - in or out of court. (Clarence Darrow)
In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls. View quote
Lenny Bruce
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice. View quote
Learned Hand
Mercy is of greater value than justice. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. View quote
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Only the man who has enough good in him to feel the justice of the penalty can be punished; the others can only be hurt. View quote
William Ernest Hocking
This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The greatest enemy of justice is privilege. (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice, is left perfectly free to pursue his own interest his own way, and to bring both his industry and capital into competition with those of any other man or order of men. View quote
Adam Smith
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. View quote
Sachin Tendulkar
Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die. View quote
Martin Luther
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