Quotes About Justice

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.

We want to live and love and build a just and peaceful society.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom.

I welcomed the organization of the Anti-slavery Society.

Our task is not to fight old battles, but to show that there is a third way, a way of marrying together an open competitive society and successful economy with a just and decent society.

You have to totally change the way that society's structured in order to being to heal.

In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables.

I believe that free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest.

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

I regard the death penalty as a savage and immoral institution that undermines the moral and legal foundations of society.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.

Full participation in government and society has been a basic right of the country symbolizing the full citizenship and equal protection of all.

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.