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Quotes About Justice

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you can't find something to live for; find something to die for.
~ Unknown
What goes around comes back around...
~ Unknown
Don't waste your time on revenge. Those who hurt you will eventually face their own karma.
~ Unknown
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is...always an enemy to happiness.
~ Hosea Ballou
To remain blind to what is false in the claims of the individual called Germany, to see justice in every claim of the individual called France, the surest way was not for a German to lack judgment and for a Frenchman to possess it but for both to be patriotic.
~ Marcel Proust
But, as my sister says, 'there must always be poor people so that now that I'm rich I can shit on them.
~ Marcel Proust
I arrived there at the same time as the Germans. Everybody wanted to prevent me going, I was treated as though I were mad. 'What,' they said to me, 'you are safe in Paris and you want to leave for those invaded regions just as everybody else is trying to get away from them?' I recognised the justice of this reasoning but what was to be done?
~ Marcel Proust
But, for one thing, however fiercely the Dreyfus cyclone was raging, it is not at the onset of a storm that the waves are at their most violent.
~ Marcel Proust
For the very ones who are right, like Françoise, have also to be wrong, so that Justice becomes an impossibility
~ Marcel Proust
An artist, however modest, is always willing to hear himself preferred to his rivals, and tries only to see that justice is done them.
~ Marcel Proust
The world is going too far in these days. As my poor Octave used to say, we have forgotten God too often, and He is taking vengeance upon us.
~ Marcel Proust
We pardon the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.
~ Marcel Proust
poor people are presented in the Theology of Liberation as decent, that is, asexual or monogamous heterosexual spouses united in the holy sacrament of marriage, people of faith and struggle who do not masturbate, have lustful thoughts at prayer times, cross-dress, or enjoy leather practices. However, if we keep falsifying human relationships in the name not only of God (a habit to which we have grown accustomed) we must remember that we do it also in our love for justice.
~ Unknown
Dijo Pep: "Todos sois iguales es la mentira más grande que existe en el deporte. No todos son iguales, ni todos deben ser tratados iguales".
~ Unknown
For decades (really centuries), the Roman Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the ultra-Orthodox Jews, among others, have handled reports of clergy abuse as though the public good were not their problem and have insisted on silence as they refused to report the crimes to authorities.
~ Unknown
The abuses by individual clergy in religious organizations are evil; the persistent cover ups by religious organizations, which empowered clergy pedophiles to get ever more victims, is worse; but the Roman Catholic hierarchy's lobbying against access to justice for all child sex abuse victims is about as cynical as it gets.
~ Unknown
Religious conduct occupies no "forbidden field," but rather stands shoulder-to-shoulder with all other conduct that engenders the same harm. The question was whether the behavior was so reprehensible as to deserve punitive damages. Obviously, a jury thought so.
~ Unknown
After being arrested in June 2000, Reardon pleaded guilty of 75 counts of abuse, including rape, of 24 boys, and received up to 50 years in prison for his crimes. The YMCA quickly settled the boys' claims against it; but the church held out for another year.46 The Boston Archdiocese finally paid $85 million to settle the claims of 552 victims, including Reardon's, in September 2003.
~ Unknown
CAR TAPE. October 1994. I'd like to see us abolish the jury system. Why leave the fate of our nation in the hands of these moon rocks?
~ Marcia Clark
By virtue of his celebrity, he would be coddled by worshipful cops, pumped up by star-fucking attorneys, indulged by a spineless judge, and adored by jurors every bit as addled by racial hatred as their counterparts on the Rodney King jury. O. J. Simpson slaughtered two innocent people, and he walked free—right past the most massive and compelling body of physical evidence ever assembled against a criminal defendant. I am not bitter. I am angry.
~ Marcia Clark
Besides, it's possible he's not guilty." I laughed so hard I had to put down my fries. I
~ Marcia Clark
GET THE ASSHOLE WHO DID THIS! #justiceforchloe OMG I LOVED HER!! #tragedy MY FAVORITE ON DARK CORNERS! NOOOOO! #chloeforever
~ Marcia Clark
It's the Law of Douche Bags. Douche bags walk away with enough holes in them to look like a colander, while good guys go down for the count with one random punch to the head. Sheri—one
~ Marcia Clark