Quotes About Justice

Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page. And when the judges in 1954 read the record of enforced segregation it carried only one possible meaning: It expressed a judgment of inherent inferiority on the part of the minority race."65

Progressives still express their worries in an essentially 1930s vocabulary of distributive justice, understood in economic, meaning material, terms. This assumes a reassuringly mundane politics of splittable differences—how much concrete to pour, how many crops to subsidize by how much, which factions shall get what.

In another dissent, which became famous and influential, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted an almost unlimited government police power flowing from "the right of a majority to embody their opinions in law." Notice that Holmes' majoritarianism led him to assert an essentially unlimited right.

it is arguable that the most molecular word in political discourse, the noun that denotes something on which all else depends and builds, is neither "justice" nor "freedom" nor "equality." It is "family." Without the nurturing and disciplining done in intact families, individuals are apt to be ill-equipped to exercise the freedom to become unequal, and therefore are handicapped in the pursuit of justice for themselves and others.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

Bestowing upon men equality of rights is but giving license to the strong to oppress the weak. It begets the grossest inequality of condition.

[It was] Justice Bennet of Derby, who was the first that called us Quakers, because we bid them tremble at the word of the Lord. This was in the year 1650.

Therefore fighters are not of Christ's kingdom, and are without Christ's kingdom, for his kingdom stands for peace and righteousness.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

The pursuit of universal rights requires more than speeches. It requires power.

It is good, as I have said, to be neither victim nor victimizer. Unfortunately, it is not possible. What

one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter

the same people who are taking this approach to any idea of sending an American accused to a court in the Hague are the very people demanding that my friend must be sent by Britain to the United States to disappear for the rest of his life for publishing documents which revealed war crimes.

He once starved a woman to the brink of death, trying to break her. Poetic justice, he reflected.

I respect your right to differ, but that doesn't change reality. I cannot have people thrown through windows willy-nilly in my county.

All gods feed on suffering. Without it, there are no prayers or offerings. Mankind is selfish. They give only when they have to. If this world was idyllic and life was just, what need would there be for gods?

It's your job to apprehend criminals?" "Only some. You have to do something remarkable to gain my attention.

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Curran stalked into the room as if he owned it, turned, and crossed his arms on his chest. Biceps bulged, stretching the sleeves of his sweatshirt. If there was any justice in the world, he should've gone bald, lost all his teeth, and developed a terrible skin rash. But no, the bastard looked good. In perfect health.

Mercy is defined as kindness or forgiveness given to someone who is within your power to punish. To show mercy means to give up retribution, sometimes at the cost of justice.

If this is a lynch mob, you didn't bring enough people," I said.

In a country ruled by a civil majority even the smallest minority enjoys greater protection than a majority living in a country where power is hoarded by select few," Cornelius said.

We had accepted this job pro bono, because snatching a service animal from a child in a wheelchair was a heinous act and someone had to make it right.

Helen looked at her from the floor, her big green eyes huge on her face. "He started it." And she finished it. "You weren't wrong," Maud said. "But you weren't wise.