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Quotes About Justice

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
~ Georg Simmel
The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.
~ Ayn Rand
We do not advocate 'right to life' for animals.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
I have inquired for most of my adult life, about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent, and I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point.
~ Janet Reno
Life in freedom is not easy, and democracy is not perfect.
~ John F. Kennedy
I try to live my life every day in the present, and try not to turn a blind eye to injustice and need.
~ Susan Sarandon
I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.
~ Tupac Shakur
If only evil things are done by evil people... Life would be then safe, morally elevated, cozy - we know how to spot evil people and what to do with them to pay for their crimes.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent.
~ Confucius
Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative. Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
~ John Dryden
Being pro-life doesn't save babies, acting pro-life does.
~ Dennis Green
Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
The day should come when all of the forms of life... will stand before the court - the pileated woodpecker as well as the coyote and bear, the lemmings as well as the trout in the streams.
~ William O. Douglas
The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is just anathema to me, and I can't conscious about a party that supports that.
~ Mike Pence
There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.
~ Mother Teresa
Forgiveness is better than revenge.
~ Pittacus of Mytilene
I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.
~ Paula Deen
The Koran says the killing of an innocent, the taking of an innocent life, is tantamount to killing all of mankind.
~ Queen Noor of Jordan
When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.
~ Benazir Bhutto
It's funny how most activists are pacifists.
~ Craig Reucassel
We oppose the death penalty not just for what it does to those guilty of heinous crimes, but for what it does to all of us: It offers the tragic illusiion that we can defend life by taking life.
~ Joseph Fiorenza
The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.
~ Kenneth Lay
Conning the conmen is one of life's most satisfying pleasures.
~ Ryan Holiday
Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
~ Solon