Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart.

In this miasma of forgotten wars, torture and the war on terror, there are no easy answers, especially in the face of a very real terrorism. But I can live my questions. As a humanitarian,...

Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement....

I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn’t want to be a lawyer. I...

humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.

As long as you’re scared you’re on the plantation.

What kind of justice would you be?

The vast majority of A.D.A.s put everything on the line to make sure justice is served. That’s what I love about prosecutors and the New York police.

It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.

But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on ‘forgetting’ appears to have a limited lifespan.

A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. … A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the...

I see no justice in that plan.””Who said,” lashed out Isaac Penn, “that you, a man, can always perceive justice? Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know...

Maybe there is no justice, only different degrees of injustice.

I believe in justice, as long as I’m holding a knife at the throat of the judge.

Existe a vingança e existe a justiça. Às vezes as duas são uma só.

After everything, you still want to believe that love prevails, that in the end there will be justice. That is an illusion, and I pity you.

When searching for justice, what you sometimes find is just more trouble.

A basic principle of American justice holds that a bad man has the same rights as a good man.

Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill,” said John [Adams]. “Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

You need to use the bathroom. When I tell you to, go into the house. Two cats will try to comein with you. You must let them in. Don’t allow anyone to stop them. Once...

Crime and punishment can be summed up in two classifications: there are bad people and there are people who get into bad situations. The lines for liberation and rehabilitation should first begin with the people...

The appointment of a chief justice is the ultimate level of scrutiny. So it raises the stakes. Obviously, Roberts has many qualifications as a jurist, but the issues for this country are so intense when...

I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one’s self.

There’s a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet. . . there’s a day coming that will burn as an oven. It...

We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the...

The existence of poverty is the proof of an unjust and ill-organised society, and our public charities are but the first tardy awakening in the conscience of a robber.

A righteous God isn’t bound by time. He has an eternity to make things right.

I loved the show as a child and felt I could not do it justice.

Something is significantly wrong with the creature that sacrifices its children’s lives in order to settle its differences.

As he himself said, “I will prove it to you, gentlemen, and i will prove it in two ways. First in the blinding clarity of the facts, and second, in the dim light cast by...

I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the...

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into...

Their quarry had been cornered in his defenses and their bloodlust was such that they were likely to pay top Julep to watch him escape, so that he might be brutalized and killed before their...

Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851

Seorang pemimpin terlebih dahulu mesti mengakui hak-hak sipil rakyat. Janganlah mengharap rakyat memenuhi kewajibannya terhadap negara, bila hak-hak sipilnya tidak terlindungi.

Without peace, justice and freedom, the true value and dignity of mankind disappears.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and...

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Vezon, frankly, was disappointed. Sure, he had tried to steal the Mask of Life, and, yes, he had tried to kill the Toa Inika once, well, twice. And, okay, he had made an effort to...

People who believe that justice is a pendulum are willing to swing it wildly.

Any serious social, political, and economic change must include veganism.

La loi n’a jamais rendu les hommes plus justes d’un iota ; et, à cause du respect qu’ils lui marquent, les êtres bien disposés eux-même deviennent les agents de l’injustice.

Ignorance and fanaticism is ever busy and needs feeding. Always it is feeding and gloating for more.

Thou shalt not steal.

The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

It’s hard to find words to describe to you the unfairness, the miscarriage of justice, that they have charged my client. This kid is just an honorable kid. Never done anything wrong in his life....

There is no reason to think a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens cannot change the world; Indeed, that’s the only thing that ever has.

Justice fails because victims used to be too kind and criminals too clever.

Cowards only find courage in the number of their likeness, citing their lofty strongholds as havens for their impunity.