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Quotes About Justice

When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
~ Islom Karimov
The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
~ Archibald MacLeish
For benefits return benefits; for injuries return justice without any admixture of revenge.
~ Confucius
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.
~ Edward Coke
A Warrior never accepts what is unacceptable.
~ Paulo Coelho
Any judge who allows an adulterer with a live-in girlfriend to terminate the life of his wife should be impeached.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
Not to share one's goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs.
~ Pope Francis
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
~ Abraham Lincoln
The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.
~ Aesop
People who commit monstrous crimes are not necessarily monsters. If they were, things would be easy. But they aren't and it is one of the experiences of life.
~ Bernhard Schlink
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
~ Bernice Johnson Reagon
I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater.
~ George Takei
If you join a fight for social justice you may win or lose, but just by being part of the struggle, you win, and your life will be better for it.
~ Howard Zinn
Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?
~ J. Michael Straczynski
Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.
~ James Clavell
A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.
~ Janet Malcolm
I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.
~ Janusz Korwin-Mikke
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom, justice and equality are three principles of life are with us before the fast, they should be with us during the fast and they should be with us after the fast.
~ Louis Farrakhan
Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)
~ Mark Billingham
Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
~ Plato
If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
~ Elie Wiesel