Quotes About Justice

Those born with, have a duty to those born without.

Those who enforce laws must also abide by them.

Try to destroy evil and you may find yourself become the very evil you first set out to destroy.

Remember the words of the Bible in Amos 5:24, 'Let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-falling stream'.

Following the 2000 coup, this august house did not agree to forgive the perpetrators but you decided that justice will take its course. You are confronted with a similar decision now. The military humbly requests that you display the same wisdom then to protect our land now.

The military stand is that reconciliation is only possible after justice is served.

Why should only a few people be freed and not others when we are all serving under the same law?

This Bill is not about crime committed within one group of people but involves many races living in Fiji. Therefore we can not apply one law onto another. We need to protect the whole population; the different faiths; cultures and traditions.

Coups will be taken lightly if we condone this Bill, without justice there is no peace. If you honourable chiefs agree that those involved in the coup be forgiven, it will prove that we support the wrong and will be at odds with the integrity of God.

Let's do right in the eyes of God!

When we wrong God, he does not let us go, he makes us pay for our wrongs but through the death of his own son Jesus Christ. When God's people (Jews) wronged him, he weakened them in battle and caused them to be captives in Babylon for 70 years.

Moi, je veux montrer mes qualités; mais, je ne suis pas assez hypocrite pour cacher mes vices! Le rire, le mal, l'orgueil, la folie, paraitront, tour à tour, entre la sensibilité et l'amour de la justice, et serviront d'exemple à la stupéfaction humaine; chacun s'y reconnaitra, non pas tel qu'il devrait être, mais tel qu'il est.

Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.

One may be just, if one is not human.

It would be much better for you to give up thinking of God and to create your own justice, since it is refused you.

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

A gentleman considers what is right; The vulgar consider what will pay.

Make fair agreements and stick to them.

There was no justice in the world, but he had known that ever since the death of his father. The spirits took no part in the lives of men once they had been born. A man either endured what the world sent his way, or was crushed.

A little guilt has made more than a few men live better than they would have done—trying to even the scales before they cross the river.

If my brother was made to kneel... you will never walk again.

People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws. EDMUND BURKE

Vengeance is a fine thing, but forgiveness can be just as cruel.

There was no justice in the world—unless he made it for himself. Unless he cut twice as deep as he had been cut and gave back blow for blow. He had the right.