A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or an individual, it is always supposed to be ready and willing...

Far more beguiling than the idea that evil can be destroyed by throwing a piece of expensive jewelry into a volcano is the possibility that evil can be defused by talking. The fantasy of justice...

How do you stop those who will stop at nothing?

Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of...

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to...

Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned...

I don’t want tea, I want justice!

We have an aggressive Fed and an aggressive Justice Department thinking perhaps that all things technological, that have a dominant share of the market, could be considered anti-competitive.

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.

Law reflects but in no sense determines the moral worth of a society. The values of a reasonably just society will reflect themselves in a reasonably just law. The better the society, the less law...

Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

Do not complain of life’s unfairness. It is never fair – at best it is impartial.

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable

How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

This is a time for justice tempered with mercy and understanding. ‘ There is no evidence of either in Judge Roberts’ career. The president should be denied this nomination.

A system of justice does not need to pursue retribution. If the purpose of drug sentencing is to prevent harm, all we need to do is decide what to do with people who pose a...

Justice isn’t about fixing the past; it’s about healing the past’s future.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

A just person is one who is conformed and transformed into justice.

The price of being a nice guy is too high – much too high – in terms of the system of justice.

In a fair and just society you can’t create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.

The personality of Muhammad, it is most difficult to get into the whole truth of it. Only a glimpse of it I can catch. What a dramatic succession of picturesque scenes! There is Muhammad, the...

The justice doesn’t have any comment about it.

To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required...

There is no client as scary as an innocent man.”J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defense Attorney, Los Angeles, 1962.

Truth can hurt, but truth will bring you justice. Embrace the pain, and the truth shall set you free.

The Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka, knows exactly how the political bluff works and uses it to spread lies among the people. What he has done to this country is assassinate the dignity and respect...

The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic...

If we don’t fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don’t really stand for them.

The Pledge of Allegiance says ‘liberty and justice for all’. Which part of ‘all’ don’t you understand?

Lust of power is the most flagrant of all the passions

The very idea of penalizing based on propensities is nauseating. To accuse a person of some possible future behavior is to negate the very foundation of justice: that one must have done something before we...

Instead of saying; “WWJD (What would Jesus do)?” I will be asking myself “WIDTM(Will I Do This Do Myself”Because Jesus said, “Love your neighbors as if you love yourself.”So I will quote I will treat...

Justice.” Lizzie twirled a lock of hair around her little finger.

The key thing here is that the court handed down some justice today. It’s the first taste of justice that the victims have received.

Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic,...

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment

Don’t you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn’t that what justice is? Letely, though, I wonder if we’ve gotten more into vengenance than justice.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing civilization. And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to...

Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women’s equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

Justice O’Connor loves the court as an institution. And she was probably pleased to have to the opportunity to serve with Chief Justice Roberts for a short period of time, but I think she would...

Dr. King’s famous ‘I Have a Dream’ speech was delivered at ‘The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,’ a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement’s focus.

A Muslim must not hate his wife and if he be displeased with one bad quality in her, then let him be pleased with another that is good.

[Liberal religious leaders denounced Justice Sunday at a news conference.] The people who are putting together Justice Sunday seem to be far more interested in power than in justice, … They now control the White...

Morality he found amusing, in the obscure way that only a man with a Ph.D. in philosophy could find such things amusing, but justice and ethics were inflexible measures, applicable to all, and not to...

There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

On June 19, 1981, a vigorously healthy Justice Potter Stewart resigned from the Supreme Court at the age of 66.

When this kind of power is used in the regular criminal justice system, there are some built-in checks and balances. The intelligence context provides no such protection. That’s the main problem with these kinds of...