When man lost touch with his humanity he had no reason to walk along the higher path.

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918)

Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others. Then there are those who seem to exist for pain’s sake only; that in the end the wrathful fire...

The truth! Since when have the majority on Earth cared about the truth?

They are all very relieved and feel that justice has been served. This was all just one big misunderstanding that got blown way out of proportion.

Someone, somewhere, needs to take courage to break the cycle of violence. Forgiveness is superior to justice. Being kind and compassionate to those who are good to you is easy. True forgiveness and compassion come...

He proved that it was equally true if the disregard was by a ruler or by a people. “It spreads like a disease,” he said. “And it’s infinitely more deadly when the law is disregarded...

Moreover, they who returned, if any, would be flogged, as seemed proper, after due examination. And though the news of their beatings might help all others to hesitation, ere they did foolishly, in like fashion,...

We have no criminal justice system functioning today.

Not one of the learned gentlemen who pretend that the Mosaic laws are filled with justice and intelligence, would live, for a moment, in any country where such laws were in force.

Karma has been a pop culture term for ages. But really, what the heck is it?Karma is not an inviolate engine of cosmic punishment. Rather, it is a neutral sequence of acts, results, and consequences.Receiving...

‘There is no justice,’ said Death. ‘Just me.’

The millions of vacationers who came here every year before Katrina were mostly unaware of this poverty. French Quarter tourists were rarely exposed to the reality beneath the Disneyland Gomorrah that is projected as ‘N’Awlins,’...

Teaching has always been, for me, linked to issues of social justice. I’ve never considered it a neutral or passive profession.

It is a policeman’s duty to retrieve stolen property and return it to its owners. But when robbery becomes the purpose of the law, and the policeman’s duty becomes, not protection, but the plunder of...

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the...

It doesn’t matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.

They’re our smallest victims. You have to prepare them for dealing with the criminal justice system, which is an adult system.

Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.

Judgment doesn’t always fall on the unjust in this life. Sometimes you have to make your own way out.

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it “social justice”.

As a rule,I believe people shouldn’t follow rules;rules should follow people.

To be incapable of taking one’s enemies, one’s accidents, even one’s misdeeds seriously for very long – that is the sign of strong full natures in whom there is an excess of power to form,...

We are always in a constant state of conspiracies, at least thats what they keep telling us…

Then Mr. Underwood’s meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men’s hearts Atticus had no case.

rendered 70 terrorists to justice.

Today, the president can ask the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department to investigate the prices that are outrageous and, particularly, the discontinuity between the record profits of the oil companies,

A unjust law, is no law at all.

The sense of justice is continuous with the love of mankind.

[Jürgen Habermas’ obituary to friend and philosopher, Richard Rorty]One small autobiographical piece by Rorty bears the title ‘Wild Orchids and Trotsky.’ In it, Rorty describes how as a youth he ambled around the blooming hillside...

And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word ‘justice’. All the complex laws of man centered for her in one clear and simple law—the law of love and self-sacrifice taught us by...

The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft trials in Salem during 1691, the Moscow trials of 1937 during which Stalin destroyed all of...

Don’t misunderstand me. The terrorist actions of Al-Qaeda were and are unmitigatedly evil. But the astonishing naivety which decreed that America as a whole was a pure, innocent victim, so that the world could be...

I wasn’t built to look the other way because the law demanded it. The law might be wrong.

If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?

We are all born and someday we’ll all die. Most likely to some degree alone.What if our aloneness isn’t a tragedy? What if our aloneness is what allows us to speak the truth without being...

All it takes is common sense to understand that the Rajapaksa administration has vandalised every layer of the country’s resources to get rid of political obstacles while minimising the space available to facilitate the sharing...

You’ve said [Justice Robert H. Jackson] was one of the justices you admire the most.

[The US Department of Justice] is very silent on the case,

I can’t say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated....

I shall yield a rifle of fury, loaded with the justice of time and the raging storm of my soul!

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice is a social construct. It’s well known that the physical universe isn’t fair. Nevertheless, it’s difficult to decide which is more provoking: good people suffering or evil people prospering.

Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.

I wish you would thrash him. He deserves it.”She looked back at him. “I will one day, sir. I’m getting tired of falling down.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

Too many young Indigenous members of our community are being caught up in the criminal justice system, with an increasing number of cases resulting in notably unjust and undue outcomes, primarily due to the lack...

I cannot believe that God would choose to play dice with the universe.