Quotes About Justice

In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. I stress 'suspects.'

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.

No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker.

We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

The success of any legal system is measured by its fidelity to the universal ideal of justice.

Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.

We cling to the idea that success is a simple function of individual merit and that the world in which we all grow up and the rules we choose to write as a society don't matter at all.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.

It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

Homeless shelters, child hunger, and child suffering have become normalized in the richest nation on earth. It's time to reset our moral compass and redefine how we measure success.

On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

The weapon of nonviolence does not need supermen or superwomen to wield it; even beings of common clay can use it and have used it before this with success.

God gives manhood but one clew to success,--utter and exact justice; that he guarantees shall be always expediency.

The best part about using success as revenge means no 25 to life.

You factor in racism as a reality and you keep moving.

So far, then, said Danglars, mentally, all has gone as I would have it. I am, temporarily, commander of the Pharaon, with the certainty of being permanently so, if that fool of a Caderousse can be persuaded to hold his tongue. My only fear is the chance of Dantes being released. But, there, he is in the hands of Justice; and, added he with a smile, she will take her own. So saying, he leaped into a boat, desiring to be rowed on board the Pharaon, where M. Morrel had agreed to meet him.

An all-wise Providence permits not sinners to escape thus easily from the punishment they have merited on earth, but reserves them to aid his own designs, using them as instruments whereby to work his vengeance on the guilty.

Of course,' the inspector remarked, with the naïvety of the corrupt, 'if he had really been rich, he would not be in prison.