Quotes About Justice

It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

For generations, the Jewish and African-American communities have stood together, helping each other overcome their greatest challenges and triumph in the face of sweeping discrimination, all while securing a brighter future for all of our children.

The hunting of monsters is not for the faint of heart. Nor is it for those who feel bound by such trivial doctrines as law or national borders.

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.

I understand it must be hard to realize that the playing field you are collecting all your trophies from is not a level playing field, but that doesn't mean you can just make inaccurate statements.

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.

Sometimes when women come forward about sexual harassment, they're seen as a troublemaker.

I got a big truck, just in case I need to round up criminal illegals and take 'em home myself.

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

We can never be afraid to stand up for what is right, no matter what others may say. And sometimes, if that means taking a lonely road, if what we are standing for is true, then perhaps moonlight or sunshine will light our way and make it less lonely.

Corruption is a true enemy to development.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

I support liberty; I support true freedom.

I no longer believe that we can 'fix' the police, as though the police are anything other than a mirror reflecting back to us the true nature of our democracy.

A sure indicator of true religion is a concern for the poor of the earth.

If a film is based on a true story and you don't use anyone's name, you can do what you like.

I've always thought that the level of homelessness in society is likely to be a truer measure of how civilised we are then almost any other factor.