Quotes About Justice

If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

I joke that, 'Give us forty-two minutes, and we'll get your bad guy for you.'

There's nothing wrong with Iqbal believing we'll be free someday, I thought.

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Revenge is a king of wild justice.

Judges ought to remember that their office is to interpret law, and not to make law, or give law.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

W]hen any of the four pillars of government are mainly shaken or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.

Kafas?nda durmadan öç almay? kuran kiÅŸinin yaralar?n?n saÄŸal?p iyileÅŸeceÄŸi yerde daha da azaca?? apaç?k bir ÅŸeydir.

Se venger, c'est se mettre au niveau de l'ennemi; pardonner, c'est le dépasser.

Ira Hominis Non Implet Iustitiam Dei

There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like. There, why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other.

So when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.

I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

I pledge allegiance to my flag and to the republic for which it stands: one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

God shows those in hell all the love they are willing to accept: his justice. To us on earth, God shows his loving mercy. To those in heaven, God shows his face, which is beyond all imagining, the face of love that has no limit and never ends.

In an American context, Lasch argued that narcissism as a social phenomenon would lead not to fascism, but to a broad depoliticization of society, in which struggles for social justice were reduced to personal psychological problems.8 Lasch wrote well before the rise of Donald Trump, a political figure who almost perfectly embodies the narcissism he describes. Narcissism led Trump into politics, but a politics driven less by public purposes than his own inner needs for public affirmation.

Societies seek to enforce basic social rules universally, but a rule of law that protects citizens against arbitrary actions of the state itself is often initially applied only to a minority of privileged subjects. The law, in other words, protects the interests of the elites who are close to the state or who control the state, and in that sense law resembles what Socrates in Plato's Republic labels the "justice of a band of robbers.

Latin America has been characterized by a "birth defect" of inequality from which it has not yet recovered.

The repeated demand for "justice," incorporated into the names of many Islamist parties, reflects not so much a demand for social equality as a demand for equal treatment under the law.

In all postconflict reconstruction, the ultimate goal is to create a minimally capable state in four key areas: (1) security; (2) governance and participation; (3) social and economic well-being; and (4) justice and reconciliation.