Quotes About Justice

there are few if any issues where all the truth and all the right and all the angels are on one side.

The high courage and the supreme sacrifice of Americans who gave their lives in battle have made it possible for our land to flourish under freedom and justice.

The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God

Truth is omnipotent.

I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, in human liberty as the source of national action, in the human heart as the source of national compassion... for liberalism is not so much a party creed as it is an attitude of mind and heart, a faith in man's ability through the experiences of his reason and judgment to increase for himself and his fellow men the amount of justice and freedom and brotherhood which all human life deserves.

A country cannot afford to ignore its poor and disadvantaged. Common humanity means that we should not.

Philosophers, Wittgenstein said, had made the mistake of being like scientists chasing the meaning behind things – truth, mind, time, justice, reality – when none of this really matters, or is even achievable. A philosopher might waste his time wondering how he knew the child with the cut knee screaming her head off was really in pain, while the mother would rush in with comfort and bandages. The philosopher was clearly the one with lessons to learn.

The mistake, Wittgenstein argued, is in thinking philosophy can answer these questions. It comes partly from a flawed view of language that insists that if a word has meaning, there must be a thing attached to that meaning. The philosopher asks, 'What is reality?', 'What is justice?' or 'What is the mind?' and then goes looking with logic for the identity of that thing – and of course can't find it, because they are just words.

People need change now, today. Even one more child dying from hunger, one more life blighted by poverty, is one too many.

this precious Stone crieth out saying, defend me and I will defend thee, give me my right that I may help thee

Revenge proves its own executioner.

The Choice Spare him till he dies. Torment him till he lives.

O s?-mi r?spunzi: "Pentru c? existau copii care mureau de foame în vreme ce tu cântai în soare". Ar trebui deci s? nu mai avem palate, s? nu mai avem gusturi rafinate, bucurii de tot felul, s? nu mai d?m curs imaginaÈ›iei. Lumea trebuie s? aib? un scop ascendent c?tre bucurii mai înalte, fericire mai mult? pentru membrii societ??ii.

Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself. - John Galsworthy, Justice [1910], act II

But in those four minutes the boy before you has slipped through a door, hardly opened, into that great cage which never again quite lets a man go — the cage of the Law.

A NUMBER OF BARRISTERS, SOLICITERS, SPECTATORS, USHERS, REPORTERS, JURYMEN, WARDERS, AND PRISONERS TIME: The Present. ACT I. The office of James and Walter How. Morning. July. ACT II. Assizes. Afternoon. October. ACT III. A prison. December. SCENE I. The Governor's office. SCENE II. A corridor. SCENE III. A cell. ACT IV. The office of James and Walter How. Morning. March, two years later.

FALDER is sitting exactly opposite to the JUDGE, who, raised above the clamour of the court, also seems unconscious of and indifferent to everything.

Gentlemen, the prisoner is only twenty-three years old. I shall call before you a woman from whom you will learn the events that led up to this act. You will hear from her own lips the tragic circumstances of her life, the still more tragic infatuation with which she has inspired the prisoner.

FALDER. It's easy enough to put a face on it, sir, when you're independent. Try it when you're down like me. They talk about giving you your deserts. Well, I think I've had just a bit over.

We were there to do what had to be done. Using napalm didn't fit with peacetime sensitivities, but peace and a return to the sensitivities that it permitted were what we were fighting to achieve.

Prisons are hate factories, Pastor, and society wants more and more of them.

Poverty is a great equalizer

Like so many, this trial is not about the truth; it's about winning.

They found Seth Hubbard in the general area where he had promised to be, though not exactly in the condition expected. He was at the end of a rope, six feet off the ground and twisting slightly in the wind.