Quotes on Justice

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

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

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him.

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

You have to start out learning to believe the little lies. "So we can believe the big ones?" Yes. Justice, mercy, duty. That sort of thing.

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

I have no fear, I have only love

The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice and individual liberty.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

There is no justice in the laws of nature, no term for fairness in the equations of motion. The Universe is neither evil, nor good, it simply does not care. The stars don't care, or the Sun, or the sky. But they don't have to! WE care! There IS light in the world, and it is US!

The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner