Quotes About Justice

Peace cannot exist in that society where their is no justice, equality and obedience of law.

We must avoid from the person before which legitimate and unlegitimate thingsor works are equal.

You can kill me but you cannot disguise the truth.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Truth and justice, on the contrary, are the least universal, the youngest features in the development of human society.

We must not only act politically, but in our politics act religiously, religiously in the sense of freedom, of which the one true expression is justice and love.

With all due respect, then, to the metaphysicians and religious idealists, philosophers, politicians, or poets: The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty, and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind, both in theory and practice.

The savings of workers are fairy tales invented by bourgeois economists to lull their weak sentiment of justice.

The U.S. overall has an excellent record when it comes to treatment of POWs and persons listed as foreign combatants, but the longer the war against terrorism goes on, the more tempting it is for our guys to stoop to the other side's level. After all, they're only human, and they might come to view the person sitting across from them as someone not worthy of any rights at all.

God made all of us, Josh. We all his children. Ain't no good trying to divide us all up. I seen plenty of white folk beaten up in prison. Evil comes in all forms, all colors. Bible says so. I ain't judging nobody except on themselves. Only way to do it.

I was with Bobby Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel. I was a rookie cop in L.A. when RFK came through. I just stood there and watched a man who should have gone on to be president bleed to death on the floor. Every day since then I've wondered what I could have done differently.

Take care lest perchance you fall into the mistake of thinking to gain more by being merciful than by being just; for to pardon him too easily that has transgressed is to wrong him that transgresses not.

Bigger dreams of some black man who will weld all blacks together into a mighty fist.

It is true that two wrongs don't make a right, as we love to point out to the people we have wronged. But one wrong doesn't make a right, either.

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

The arts and criminality have always flourished side by side.

Suspicion is far more apt to be wrong than right; oftener unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

God would have been strangely unjust had he confined the testimony of his power to certain generations and peoples and denied them to others. The brazen rod belongs to all.

God makes no mistake in His judgments, Madame; I recognize no tribunal but His.

Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon.

A guilty system recognizes no innocents.

There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.

I like to think I have the guts to stand up anonymously in a western democracy and call for things no-one else believes in - like peace and justice and freedom.