Justice Quotations | Page 6

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Law and justice are not always the same.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

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

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.

An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

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

Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.

What I don't like is judges legislating from the bench. And as president of the United States, I will appoint justices who uphold the Constitution and who don't see themselves as a super legislature.

There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

The fact that life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.

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

I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

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

I think God's justice is making wrongs right.

The position that you have been nominated for is chief justice of the United States. Do you plan to use that role as a bully pulpit to encourage members of the bar to take seriously their responsibility to undertake pro bono work as you have done throughout your legal career?

The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebastian back, but I want justice done.

We applaud the five judiciary members who voted their conscience and took a principled position in opposition to the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States. However, we are profoundly disappointed that the committee, as a whole, ignored compelling evidence against his nomination.

We are prepared to agree the interests of justice dictate that the applicants should be released from custody.

We still stand here today having great concern about the lack of commitment, dedication, and focus towards this case. Justice delayed is justice denied.

Why tackle the Hispanic people only? That is not fair. That is not right. That is not justice.

We appreciate the work of the Department of Justice staff to date and will continue to work with them cooperatively as they complete their review.

We appreciate the hard work of the Department of Justice staff in bringing this merger to resolution. The consent decree will result in no disruption to MCI customers. We are eager to begin offering the benefits of this new combination to customers as soon as possible.

We have sold our birthright of freedom and justice for a mess of national security.

Until whoever did this is brought to justice, Mr. Horowitz will not try any cases.

We believe that justice was being served by the ruling that we made today. We hope the action taken will be a strong message to those who believe it is okay to make trouble at football games.

whether the Justice Department is serving the American people as it should.

We've avenged all we can of Hitler's wickedness ... we must now look at the equal or greater wickedness that we've seen in the genocide in Cambodia, in the military killers of Latin America, in the blackness of the hideousness of African dictators like Idi Amin , ... The Justice Game.

You don't know who the new justice will be - or whether that justice will be there - and you have more uncertainly about John Roberts than you had with William Rehnquist.

We remain optimistic that the Department of Justice will conclude that this transaction is not anti-competitive, and that we will complete the transaction in a timely manner.

We respect the Swiss justice system, but we would have greatly preferred that he be extradited here.

We respectfully call on Jill's captors to exercise justice and mercy and let our innocent colleague go free.

We're going to the Department of Justice because we feel the investigation was tainted. We have documentation and pictures that prove these same officers have been abusive in the past.

We're going to pursue every last murderer until justice has been done,

What we're seeing here is an attempt to subvert justice, an attempt to subvert the rule of law by those that are bent on attacking honorable citizens of Iraq who are trying to see that justice is done, whether it be on the prosecution side or on the defense side.

What he does not think is helpful to the country is misstatements and the spread of misinformation about the actions of the Justice Department. Anyone who reported this morning that he criticized anyone who opposed him was absolutely wrong and in doing so became a part of the exact problem he was describing.

What he did was totally irresponsible, unprofessional and went into criminal conduct. Justice demands that he be arrested.

What has kept us going over the last two years was the belief that justice would be served,

We grew up in a situation where we didn't know what freedom or justice were, and therefore we didn't know what democracy was.

We're going to have a plethora of questions for the FBI and for Justice. And I'm not sure they are going to have any good answers to those questions.

United for Peace and Justice have behaved responsibly, as have most of the marchers,

With the information and sworn testimony on the record it is clear Judge Roberts has the necessary legal experience and character to be the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, ... It also appears that Judge Roberts will use the law and the Constitution to make his judicial decisions, not his ideological or personal beliefs.

We're in the process right now of judges and vigilantes -- people taking justice into their own hands and deciding to change the law without either the courts or the legislature acting.

We're hoping that President Bush will bring all his influences to bear ... particularly on Sinn Fein, who we believe have the power to deliver the murderers up and to get justice for Robert.

Throughout his years on the nation's high court, Chief Justice Rehnquist stood as a beacon of judicial restraint and reverence for the Constitution and the institution of the Supreme Court. I believe Judge Roberts will follow the lead of his mentor, and guide our nation's highest court by those same principles and devotion to the rule of law for all,

With the sheriff asleep in the office, the only way you get justice is with private lawyers like Alan Grayson willing to step up and take down these fraudulent companies. Alan Grayson showed that you can do that even without help from the government.

We know for a fact that lesbians are likely to be under-insured and only go to the doctor when there's a problem. We weren't doing full justice just focusing on cancer.

Justice deferred is justice denied.

With the right person in place, a very distressing chapter in the Justice Department's history can be closed and the process of restoring its credibility as a strong and independent department can begin.

Ask any real estate broker to name the three most important factors in buying a property, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." Now ask him to name the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, and he'll say: "Location, location, location." This tells us that we should not necessarily be paying a whole lot of attention to real estate brokers.

I was very pleased to get a Supreme Court justice suggesting a column, so I went and did a column about Beano. I went with my wife and another guy to a Mexican restaurant, which we thought would be the ultimate test for an antiflatulance product. There's a reason most of Mexico is located out of doors. And it worked. Several newspapers refused to run that column. But they did run advertisements for Beano.

When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.

I think hopelessness is the enemy of justice.

If you love your community, then you need to be insisting on justice in all circumstances.

The opposite of poverty isn't wealth. The opposite of poverty is justice.

We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes.

In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.

For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it better.

The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.

I'm determined to go right to the end to find justice. Of course I am not happy, I feel very bitter and disappointed.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

With those two lining up against Ms. Burwell, I think we were able to develop a pretty strong case. That allowed us to force her to come in and take responsibility. We'll take their cooperation in bringing Ms. Burwell to justice when they are finally sentenced.

We're looking for some economic justice for Brockton teachers.

We've tried to separate the two issues. We have others issues with the Department of Justice regarding Medicare.

Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.

But there is nothing idealized or romantic about the difference between a society whose arrangements roughly serve all its citizens (something otherwise known as social justice) and one whose institutions have been converted into a stupendous fraud. That can be the difference between democracy and plutocracy.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed!

We can't search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

We have no criminal justice system functioning today.

We have no alternative now but to seek justice in the courts.

When, exactly, did the American justice system become a competitive team sport?

We want him to be brought to justice. We want him to be tried in the United States.

We want every asset available to bring some justice to victims,

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

There is no justice in following unjust laws. It's time to come into the light and, in the grand tradition of civil disobedience, declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture.

There is no justice in following unjust laws.