Quotes About Justice

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

I beg my Children to be just and virtuous, never to disgrace my name or theirs, and then they are out of fortune's power

A solemn day. Barring a stay by Sup Ct, & with my final nod, Utah will use most extreme power & execute a killer. Mourn his victims. Justice.

Deny a strong man his due, and he will take all he can get.

My spirituality has always been linked to my feminism. Feminism is about challenging unequal power structures.

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world's poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

When you leave good people afraid to speak on behalf of justice, however awkwardly or insensitively, those unafraid to speak will rise to power.

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from wealth.

So long as we only believe in the justice of the state, of the law-made by those in power, to serve those in power-so long will we continue to be exploited by those in power.

Governments are not overthrown by the poor, who have no power, but by the rich-when they are insulted by their inferiors and cannot obtain justice.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.

There is no one in al-Nahda that is violence is a means of change or to keep power. Everyone in al-Nahda believes that democracy is the only way to reach power and to stay in power.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.

One must obey the man whom the city sets up in power in small things and in justice and in its opposite.

Power always protects the good of some at the expense of all others.

Power exercised with violence has seldom been of long duration.

The conscience of a people is their power.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

Kink isn't a crime; conspiring with a foreign power to commit espionage, fix election is. Stay focused.

Justice is God's control over the order of the universe. Mercy is God's power even over the order of the universe.

Those who would give us a "living" Constitution are actually giving us a dead one, since such a thing is completely unable to protect us against the encroachments of government power.

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.