Justice
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Author: Winston ChurchillTopics: Famous, Freedom, Justice
I am deeply committed to the principles of justice and equality for all.
Author: Queen VictoriaTopics: Equality, Famous, Justice
Environmental justice is social justice.
Author: Zac GoldsmithTopics: Environmental, Famous, Justice, Life, Meaningful
Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
Author: J. B. MortonTopics: Done, Famous, Justice
Mercy is God’s Alpha, justice is His Omega
Author: Thomas BrooksTopics: Famous, Feelings, God, Justice, Life, Meaningful
My personal attitude toward atheists is the same attitude that I have toward Christians, and would be governed by a very orthodox text: “By their fruits shall ye know them.” I wouldn’t judge a man by the presuppositions of his life, but only by the fruits of his life. And the fruits – the relevant fruits – are, I’d say, a sense of charity, a sense of proportion, a sense of justice. And whether the man is an atheist or a Christian, I would judge him by his fruits.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Judge, Justice, Personal, Proportion
Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Rulers
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Justice, Properly, Sovereignty, Understood
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.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Family, Justice, Preserved, Spirit
If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be the fruits of our establishments, the cause of liberty will acquire a dignity and lustre, which it has never yet enjoyed, and an example will be set, which can not but have the most favorable influence on the rights of Mankind.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Character, Faith, Famous, Freedom, Gratitude, Honor, Justice, Mankind, Qualities.
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying it on no principle of justice or honor, no usage of civilized nations, no precept of courtesy or humanity, have been infringed.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Famous, Honor, Humanity, Justice, War
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
Author: James MadisonTopics: End, Famous, Government, Justice, Liberty
Our country, if it does justice to itself, will be the workshop of liberty to the civilized world.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Country, Justice, Liberty, World
The fence and the boundary line are the symbols of the spirit of justice. They set the limits upon each man’s interest to prevent one from taking advantage of the other.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Interest, Justice, Spirit
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Duty, Establish, Justice, Politics
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Circumstances, Famous, Justice, Life, Meaningful
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Justice, Life
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Famous, Feelings, Immoral, Justice, Life, Meaningful
He was a violent, unjust man. Why the plague germs spared him I can never understand. It would seem, in spite of our old metaphysical notions about absolute justice, that there is no justice in the universe. Why did he live? – an iniquitous, moral monster, a blot on the face of nature, a cruel, relentless, bestial cheat as well. All.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Justice, Never, Understand, Violent
I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
Author: Jane AustenTopics: Famous, Justice, Meaningful
It is what we of the working class preach. We know, and well we know by bitter experience, that no appeal for the right, for justice, for humanity, can ever touch you.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Experience, Humanity, Justice
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Capacity, Democracy, Famous, Injustice, Justice, Meaningful
Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.
Author: Reinhold NiebuhrTopics: Famous, Instrument, Justice, Love, Meaningful, Motive
Who judges the judge who judges wrong?
Author: Gail Carson LevineTopics: Famous, Judge, Justice, Misjudged
The only social justice movements worth fighting for are the struggles for justice where you lose, you lose, you lose- until you win.
Author: I.F.StoneTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Fighting, Inspirational, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Social, Struggles
There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.
Author: Jack LondonTopics: Greater, Judge, Justice, Wisdom, Wrong
Let us not be justices of the peace, but angels of peace
Author: Thérèse of LisieuxTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Peace
Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.
Author: Kanye WestTopics: Clear, Dream, Famous, Justice, Path, People
Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
Author: Kailash SatyarthiTopics: Compassion, Famous, Justice, Knowledge, Motivational, Together, Universalize
Dealing with a simple burglary can require 1000 process steps and 70 forms to be completed as a case goes through the Criminal Justice System. That can’t be right
Author: Theresa MayTopics: Dealing, Famous, Justice, Simple, System
What does ‘economic justice’ mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Economic, Famous, Justice, Meaningful, Produced, Return, Something
Justice at all costs’ is not justice
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Cost, Famous, Feelings, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Positive
A passionate commitment to social justice is no substitute for knowing what the hell you’re talking about.
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Commitment, Famous, Feelings, Justice, Meaningful, Passionate, Substitute, Talking
Envy is always referred to by its political alias, ’social justice
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Envy, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Justice, Meaningful, Political
Envy was once considered to be one of the seven deadly sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, ‘social justice
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Admire, Envy, Famous, Feelings, Justice, Meaningful, Virtue
I was born in a place humans call central Africa, in a dense rain forest so beautiful, no crayons could ever do it justice.
Author: K. A. ApplegateTopics: Famous, Justice, Rain
There’s definitely anger, the demand of more from the world, a demand for justice. There’s no other way I can perform the vocals than the way you hear them. It’s not just the words, it’s what is being felt.
Author: K'naanTopics: Famous, Justice, Vocal, World
Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Depression, Economy, Famous, Goal, Justice, Social harmony
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Divine, Famous, Idea, Justice, Meaningful, Purity, Vulgar
Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.
Author: Ha-Joon ChangTopics: Business, Famous, Goal, Justice, National glory, Protection, Social harmony, Stories
Chinese immigrant: “Americans make a mere practice of loving justice.”
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Famous, Hypocrisy, Immigrants, Justice, Pride
One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Famous, Justice, Majority, Persecution
See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocrisy.
Author: H. Rap BrownTopics: Country, Famous, Hypocrisy, Joke, Justice
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
Author: H. Rap BrownTopics: Famous, Justice, Lying, Rewards, Seeking, Truth
It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Expect, Famous, folly, Justice, Madness, Mercy, Murderous, Object, Refused, Tricks, Violence, War
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Children, Declaration, Famous, God, Justice, Meaningful, Moral, Principles, Says
I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe in the equality of humans; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Creatures, Duties, Endeavoring, Equality, Famous, Feelings, Fellow, God, Happiness, Hope, Humans, Justice, Life, Loving, Meaningful, Mercy, Religious
It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Duty, Evil, Famous, God, Justice, Moral, True, Vindicate
To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair
Author: Thomas MertonTopics: Desire, Despair, Evil, Famous, Feelings, Fly, God, Holy, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Merciful, Mercy, Pity, Seek
Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.
Author: H. P. LovecraftTopics: Famous, Justice, Madness, Noise
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Injustice, Justice, Tolerable
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Examination, Famous, Judge, Justice, Law, Papers, Students
Justice is what you get when you run out of money.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Famous, Justice, Money, Running
The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice, and truth. He is not actually happy when free; he is uncomfortable, a bit alarmed, and intolerably lonely.
Author: H. L. MenckenTopics: Fact, Famous, Freedom, Imaginary, Justice, Liberty, Lonely, Love, Sense, Truth
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have
Author: James BaldwinTopics: Enemy, Famous, Justice, Meaningful
Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Famous, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Right, Wrong
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Different, Diversity, Equality, Equity, Experiences, Fairness, Famous, Feelings, Individuality, Inequality, Justice, Meaningful, More, Nothing, People, Treatment, Unequal
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Action, Equal, Equality, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Freedom, Individual, Justice, Law, Liberty, Limitation, Limits, Meaningful, Often, Right of others, Rightful, Rights, Unobstructed, Violates
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.god
Author: Thomas JeffersonTopics: Country, Faith, Famous, Forever, God, Hope, Inspirational, Justice, Meaningful, Positive, Reflection, Sleep, Trust
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man’s nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice
Author: Thomas HobbesTopics: Excuse, Experiences, Fairness, Famous, Feelings, Human Nature, Justice, Less, Meaningful, Positive, Requires, Resembles
Sometimes good guys gotta do bad things to make the bad guys pay.
Author: Gabriel MachtTopics: Famous, Good, Justice, Situations
Justice … limps along, but it gets there all the same.
Author: Gabriel Garcia MarquezTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Justice
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man
Author: Franklin D. RooseveltTopics: Bring, Bringing hope, Faith, Faithful, Famous, Fellow, Hope, Hopeful, Justice, Justice Department, Own identity, Own Life, Own path, Path, Shame, Social, Social Aspects
When it’s time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
Author: Gabourey SidibeTopics: Famous, Film, Inspirational, Justice, Personal responsibility, Precious, Role, Time
Topics: Contract, Famous, Harms, Justice, Kind, Meaning of life, Meaningful, Prevent
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Contract, Famous, Harms, Inspirational, Justice, Kind, Life, Meaning of life, Meaningful, Prevent
Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
Author: EpicurusTopics: Contract, Famous, Harms, Inspirational, Justice, Kind, Life, Meaning of life, Meaningful, Prevent
I believe in the ideals of America, in liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness.
Author: Ilhan OmarTopics: Famous, Justice, Meaningful
The dominant party cannot reign forever, and truth and justice will prevail at last.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Dominant, Justice, Prevail, Truth
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Act, Deeds, Famous, Heaven, Heavenly, Inspirational, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Mercy, Music
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Experiences, Famous, Humanity, Inspirational, Justice, Justice Department, Lawyer, Lawyers, Life, Meaningful, People, Reason
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Famous, Justice, Liberty, Life, Meaningful, Opinion, Safe, Separation
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Circumstances, eminent departure, Famous, Inspirational, Justice, Life, Meaningful, no policy, People, policy of civil society, Suspicion
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the Law of Nature and of Nations.
Author: Edmund BurkeTopics: Creator, Justice, Law, law of equity, law of humanity
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Author: Groucho MarxTopics: Famous, Justice, Military justice, Military music, Music
I’ve done my best, in regard to people and to life, without precepts, but with a taste for justice.
Author: Coco ChanelTopics: Justice, Justification, Perception, Personal Life, Personal liking, Personal opinions, Task, Taste
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
Author: PlutarchTopics: Common, Famous, Justice, Meaningful
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonTopics: Children, Famous, Innocents, Inspirational, Justice, Love, Mercy, Prefer
We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.
Author: DJ KhaledTopics: Famous, Justice
Justice remains the tool of a few powerful interests; legal interpretations will continue to be made to suit the convenience of the oppressor powers.
Author: Che GuevaraTopics: Dreams, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Justice, Justice Department, Legal right, Life, Meaningful, Powerful, Powerful Being, Will, Will power
Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Descend, Famous, Justice, Meaningful, Pinnacle
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
Author: Dante AlighieriTopics: Divine, Famous, Hope, Justice, Meaningful
People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made.
Author: Otto von BismarckTopics: Justice, Love, People
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
Author: MontesquieuTopics: Famous, Greater, Justice, Law, Meaningful, Perpetrated, Shield
Peace, justice, humanity, charity—these cannot be legislated into being. They are the result of divine grace.
Author: Calvin CoolidgeTopics: Charity, Divine, Grace, Humanity, Justice, Peace
I’m one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it’s OK for me to return home.
Author: Matthew McConaugheyTopics: Famous, Home, Imagine, Justice, Meaningful, Return, Returns
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Topics: Famous, Justice, Meaningful, Threat
The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Topics: Famous, Hope, Justice, Meaningful, Peace
No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.Topics: Famous, Justice, Meaningful, Satisfied, Waters
There is no restraining men’s tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Justice, Men, Pen, Tongues
Observe good faith and justice towards all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Harmony, Inspirational, Justice, Nation, Observe, Peace
The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and the true dignity is justice.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Famous, Glory, Honor, Inspirational, Justice, Safe road, True dignity
In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Democracy, Famous, Freedom, Inspirational, Justice, Politics, Scope-of-government
As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Community, Express, Famous, Hoping, Inspirational, Justice, Liberality, See, Society, Visions
Couldn’t help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.
Author: Bob DylanTopics: Famous, Feel, Feeling, Feelings, Help, Justice, Life, Meaningful
Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all.
Author: George WashingtonTopics: Cultivate, Faith, Famous, Harmony, Inspirational, Justice, Nations, Observe, Peace
Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Famous, Feelings, Human, Justice, Meaningful, Righteousness
This hour we are stretching forth our hands with the desire to teach the world the true principles of mercy and justice.
Author: Marcus GarveyTopics: Desire, Famous, Justice, Meaningful, Mercy, Principles, Stretching, True, World
Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Famous, God, Justice, Neutral, War
Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.
Author: Audrey HepburnTopics: Famous, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Nothing, Question, Workings, World
Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.
Author: George W. BushTopics: Enemies, Famous, Inspirational, Justice
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Author: Mahatma GandhiTopics: Famous, Higher, Justice, Meaningful
If flying from justice and feigning false excuses be arguments of a guilty conscience, we must allow that [someone] by doing these things has betrayed himself guilty.
Author: Isaac NewtonTopics: Famous, Guilty conscience, Inspirational, Justice
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
Author: Norman CousinsTopics: Famous, Feelings, Human Being, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Peace, War
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
Author: Blaise PascalTopics: Injustice, Justice, Strength, Strengthen
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
Author: Blaise PascalTopics: Injustice, Justice, Powerless
Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.
Author: Billy GrahamTopics: God, Justice, Mercy, Mysterious, Quietly, Truly
How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something—even if it is only kindness
Author: Anne FrankTopics: Always, Famous, Feelings, Great, Justice, Kindness, Life, Love, Loveable, Meaningful, Small
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
Author: Benjamin FranklinTopics: Famous, Justice, Meaningful
I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.
Author: Angelina JolieTopics: Famous, Feelings, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Peace, Strong, Strongest
Justice is truth in action.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliTopics: Action, Famous, Justice, Meaningful, Truth
There is an unbroken line of police violence in the United States that takes us all the way back to the days of slavery, the aftermath of slavery, the development of the Ku Klux Klan. There is so much history of this racist violence that simply to bring one person to justice is not going to disturb the whole racist edifice
Author: Angela DavisTopics: Ability, Courage, Development, Disturb, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, History, Inspirational, Justice, Life, Meaningful, Positive, United States, Violence
You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Community, Experiences, Famous, Injustice, Justice, Meaningful, Positive, Potential
After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
Author: Barack ObamaTopics: Century, Families, Famous, Justice, Osama Bin Laden, Privileges, Production