Quotes
Quotes about Justice
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?
This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitive to the least powerful in our society.
The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown. He must dominate in his turn.
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. [Lat., Periere mores, jus, decus, pietas, fides, Et qui redire nescit, cum perit, pudor.]
The voice of the majority is no proof of justice.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
'Tis vain to flee; till gentle Mercy show Her better eye, the farther off we go, The swing of Justice deals the mightier blow.
The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this scept'red sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings; It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
What can be found equal to modesty, uncorrupt faith, the sister of justice, and undisguised truth? [Lat., Cui pudor et justitiae soror incorrupta fides nudaque veritas quando ullum inveniet parem?]
