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Quotes About Justice

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
~ Roger Mahony
Should we really let our people starve so we can pay our debts.
~ Julius Nyerere
Do not hold grain waiting for higher prices when people are hungry.
~ Zoroaster
Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
~ John F. Kennedy
Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.
~ Pat Paulsen
The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
~ Bill James
When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
~ Michael Savage
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.
~ Murray Rothbard
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.
~ Robin McKinley
As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.
~ William Safire
When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
I'm gonna make sure everybody get their justice. This the year for business, this the year for my book, this the year for the movie and this the year for getting even. I'm on my way.
~ Suge Knight
Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.
~ Earl Wilson
Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.
~ Anna Sewell
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.
~ Anton Chekhov
Insults are the business of the court.
~ Naguib Mahfouz
Liberty is always unfinished business
~ Havelock Ellis
Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.
~ G. M. Trevelyan
to move the wheels of justice is a ponderous business.
~ Mary Astor
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
~ Saint Augustine
I want them poor and they deserve to be poor. You can't have capitalism without punishment.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I don't care whether the person is guilty or not guilty. It's not my business to establish guilt or innocence. It's a court of law that does that and a jury does that, but not me.
~ Werner Herzog
The law is a horrible business.
~ Clarence Darrow