Quotes About Justice

Kindle the darkness of my calling, let me cry to the one who judges the heart in justice and mercy. Arouse my heart again with the limitless breath you breathe into me, arouse the secret from obscurity.

The statue of Justice, symbol of the law, as she holds aloft her balance scale, is blindfolded. Justice is blind to race, creed, color – and to personal eccentricity. If there were a comparable state of Clio, the Muse of history, she would have to be presented with the blindfold lying at her feet, because the balance of her scales must be weighed with a conscious awareness of the facts and interpretations she must weigh.

Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.

Dershowitz may have felt justified in misleading the jury because, in his words, "the courtroom oath—'to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'—is applicable only to witnesses. Defense attorneys, prosecutors, and judges don't take this oath…indeed, it is fair to say the American justice system is built on a foundation of not telling the whole truth.

A political prisoner is someone who is out fighting for his or her people's rights and freedom and is imprisoned for that alone.

It is never right for any individual or government to do any vast evil as a means to some hypothetical good.

I believe profoundly in two rules. Justice and mercy – they seem to me the foundation of all civilized life and society, if you include under mercy, toleration.

E allora l'uomo è più straniero nella parte del boia che in quella del condannato; più nella verità se manovra la ghigliottina, e meno se ci sta sotto.

L'italiano: ero piuttosto debole in italiano. Ma, come vede, non è poi stato un gran guaio: sono qui, procuratore della Repubblica...». «L'italiano non è l'italiano: è il ragionare» disse il professore. «Con meno italiano, lei sarebbe forse ancora più in alto».

There's a proverb, a maxim, that runs, 'The dead man is dead; let's give a hand to the living.' Now, you say that to a man from the North, and he visualizes the scene of an accident with one dead and one injured man; it's reasonable to let the dead man be and to set about saving the injured man. But a Sicilian visualizes a murdered man and his murderer, and the living man who's to be helped is the murderer.

È sempre difficile che l'ovvio e il sensato entrino in un processo.

It was strange to think that so much humane painstaking care and exertion was being introduced into the business of hanging people; that the most insane deed on earth was being committed with such an air of simplicity and reasonableness.

Justice!" bleated Othello. "Justice!" bleated the other sheep. And so it was decided that George Glenn's sheep themselves would solve the wicked murder of their shepherd.

Hayvanlar?n kurumlara al?nmad???n? söylediÄŸini san?yordum. K?rk tane polis köpeÄŸi herhalde kesinlikle hayvand?r öyle deÄŸil mi?" "Polis köpekler asl?nda düzgün konuÅŸan hayvanlar deÄŸildir. Polis köpekleri, hayvan zihniyetinden yoksun sapk?n hayvanlard?r. Polisler insan m? ki polis köpekleri hayvan olsun?

Prophetic witness consists of human acts of justice and kindness that attend to the unjust sources of human hurt and misery. Prophetic witness calls attention to the causes of unjustified suffering and unnecessary social misery. It highlights personal and institutional evil, including the evil of being indifferent to personal and institutional evil.20 West's definition adds

Wer sich peitschen läßt, verdient, gepeitscht zu werden. Who lets itself whip, earned to be whipped.

Indian activist, Mahatma Gandhi, who was a leader and guru, had a HUNGER for peace and justice. One of his sayings was, "Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

he formed a lifelong commitment to the distinction between "justice" and "the law.

All three, that is, were originally driven by ideals of justice and egalitarianism, rejecting the inequities of human power in favor of a higher and more just one. No matter how far they might have strayed from their origins as they became institutionalized over time, the historical record clearly indicates that what we now call the drive for social justice was the idealistic underpinning of monotheistic faith.

in the Gospel of Matthew: "We desire to show favor to those oppressed on earth, to make them the leaders and the inheritors.

No matter how far they might have strayed from their origins as they became institutionalized over time, the historical record clearly indicates that what we now call the drive for social justice was the idealistic underpinning of monotheistic faith.

You'll get a fair trial by court martial, and you'll be shot immediately afterwards. The day after tomorrow we shall probably start court-martialling traitors in batches of twenty.

The people who make a difference in history are those who fight for freedom - not because they're guaranteed to succeed - but because it's the right thing to do. And that's the kind of fighters that history demands today. Not those who worship the accomplished fact. Not those who can only believe in what is visible today. But instead, people of conscience who dedicate their lives to what needs to be won, and what can be won.

Maybe that was the lesson I tried to teach myself with each repetition—that power is something qualitatively more than strength. And that the world was wrong about me. I had a right to live.