Quotes on Justice

When a person does not think, "Where shall I put it?" the mind will extend throughout the entire body and move to any place at all. . . . The effort not to stop the mind in just one place - this is discipline. Not stopping the mind is object and essence. Put it nowhere and it will be everywhere. Even in moving the mind outside the body, if it is sent in one direction, it will be lacking in nine others. If the mind is not restricted to just one direction, it will be in all ten.

We can do better. ...We can't ignore the inequalities that persist in our justice system that undermine our most deeply held values of fairness and equality.

It gets you nowhere if the other person's tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Clever talk can confound the workings of virtue, just as small impatiences can confound great projects.

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power.

Anything less than full justice is cruelty.

Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.

Don't wait for it to happen, don't even want it to happen - just watch what does happen.

To blame the poor for subsisting on welfare has no justice unless we are also willing to judge every rich member of society by how productive he or she is. Taken individual by individual, it is likely that there's more idleness and abuse of government favors among the economically privileged than among the ranks of the disadvantaged.

If you want peace then you must struggle for social justice.

To be human you must bear witness to justice.

A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

Justice too long delayed is justice denied.

The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

I knew then and I know now, when it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it.

The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

WASHINGTONIAN, n. A Potomac tribesman who exchanged the privilege of governing himself for the advantage of good government. In justice to him it should be said that he did not want to.

Peace can only be secured by justice; never by force of arms.

The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.