Justice Quotes

Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.

I represented many of these kids as they become young adults in the criminal justice system when I was a public defender. One way of reaching out is by the mind of experimentation.

Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

We'll be launching the new public prosecution service in Northern Ireland tomorrow. I'll be doing it in Belfast tomorrow. This is an entirely new era, in which criminal justice now exercised on an equal basis, not the old basis in which community division was a feature.

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence.

I have to think of my status as a resident in this country. But I do insist that in Paraguay there was order; the judiciary had the power of complete independence; justice was fully exercised.

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

Justice is revenge.

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.

From my standpoint, I want to work with homeland security, justice to make sure that U.S. citizens' vote is not diluted.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

For us, universal values such as justice, morality and peace cannot be disputed and it is for this reason that we pursue the restoration of historical truth.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

The price of justice is eternal publicity.

My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong; she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

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

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.

I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.