Quotes About Justice

Let us drive away those cruel, greedy oppressors, governments, and the new ones, having just laid aside grenades and rifles, will be just and understanding. Far from it.

We wish for a broad-based government with the active participation of women, which will promote freedom and equal rights for women

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

I have no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong.

Every country has criminals who have to be fought. They can exist anywhere, including the government or the army - or outside the government and army.

What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability.

The business of government is justice.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

Virtue alone is not sufficient for the exercise of government; laws alone cannot carry themselves into practice.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

The critical point is that the Constitution places the right of silence beyond the reach of government.

The courts are truly the least dangerous of the three branches of our government.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.

When the sense of justice seeks to express itself quite outside the regular channels of established government, it has set forth on a dangerous journey inevitably ending in disaster.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

What, then is law [government]? It is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense.

It's just really tragic after all the horrors of the last 1,000 years we can't leave behind something as primitive as government-sponsored execution.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

It is nonsense for the Government to allow any loopholes for religious homophobia. Bigotry is bigotry whether it's dressed up in the language of faith or not.

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.