Quotes About Justice

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

Nothing from man's hands, nor law, nor constitution, can be final. Truth alone is final.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

Wherever you observe persecution, there is more than a probability that truth lies on il the persecuted side.

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth.

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

It wasn't really fair. He was only sorta human!

You didn't do anything. But I won't let anyone talk to you like that.. I don't care who they are." "You ready to fight the whole town then, darlin'?" She pursed her lips and said without even a bit of hesitation, "If I have to.

As my daddy would say, time to start the killin

Mayhap it was not wise to question God's plans; mayhap he had been meant to live, to seek this justice, to serve some purpose. The past was the past. And the future...

Being a Mountie's daughter means you know that the bad guys aren't just on TV. You know the good guys are real, too.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Nature does not provide one nerve without pairing it a second, he'd said. She invests us with two lungs, two kidneys, two eyes, two ears. The singular brain is divided into identical hemispheres; the heart has two corresponding auricles and ventricles. We are paired creatures, mourns Henry. He took the dress lodger's baby. She took his beloved in return. He should have realized: an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. Even revenge is paired.

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

He told us that nations of men fell into disorder, so nations of law were set up instead. He told us that nations of law then forgot justice and let the law become a Game, a Game in which the moves and the winning were more important than truth. He told us to seek justice rather than the Game.

You can't fix stupid but you can arrest stupid.

Treason is a charge invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.

Life is not a gift for being good, anymore than, death is punishment for being evil.

Tens of millions of Americans now live longer and healthier lives because activists all over our nation fought for our American values of fairness and economic justice.

fight is worthwhile," Lehman said, "even if you know you're going to lose it. It's the only way to crystallize attitudes, educate people.

Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett had tried to block the entrance to the University of Mississippi of James Meredith, an African American veteran of the United States Air Force. Georgia Senator Richard Russell, after whom one of the three United States Senate office buildings is named, lauded the "great and courageous governor of Mississippi" and lamented: "It is regretful that we have no one on the Supreme Court that recognizes the fundamentals of democracy.