Best 4420 quotes in «justice quotes» category

Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Power is not merely shouting aloud. Power is to act positively with all the components of power.

Power is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice is love correcting everything that goes against love.

Poverty must be reduced not only for reasons of moral and justice, but also of security.

Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose... one of the great problems of history is that the concepts of love and power have usually been contrasted as opposites --- polar opposites --- so that love is identified with a resignation of power, and power with a denial of love... What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.

Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.

Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

Precedent goes in support of justice.

Prejudice squints when it looks and lies when it talks.

Present day statesmen are making the biggest blunder of the age if they believe that there can be any peace without equity and justice to all mankind.

Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

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

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.

Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.

Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine; an interminable one is disgraceful.

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is always in the hope of those injustices being somewhat corrected and a little more justice established.

Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.

Punishment - The justice that the guilty deal out to those that are caught.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Punishment, that is the justice for the unjust.

Quite agreeable, of course, was this state of things to those who thought it in their abundant riches the result of inevitable economic laws and accordingly, as if it were for charity to veil the violation of justice which lawmakers not only tolerated but at times sanctioned, wanted the whole care of supporting the poor committed to charity alone.

Race determines everything in the criminal justice system.

Racial justice is key to a compassionate, inclusive, dynamic society.

Race prejudice is the devil unchained.

Radical feminists have been making the pitch that justice demands that men and women be given an equal opportunity to make it to the top in the workplace.

Race is an invention, not a noticeable genetic presence, and cultural traits are brute concoctions of the social sciences.

Racial discrimination in elections in Texas is no mere historical artifact. To the contrary, Texas has been found in violation of the Voting Rights Act in every redistricting cycle from and after 1970.

Rather like Batman, I embody the themes of the movie which are the values of family, courage and compassion and a sense of right and wrong, good and bad and justice.

Reaffirming the justice of the American system bolsters our legitimacy with allies, thereby encouraging further cooperation and improving our national security.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.

Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Regarding homophobia in general, the good news is that there is a lot less of it than there used to be. The bad news is that it ever existed in the first place, and the worse news is that it remains far stronger than is healthy for a society dedicated in theory to equality under the law.

Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.

Regardless of whether the authors I've translated have been "dead and canonized," or "living and established," or even simply "emerging," I must put myself to the same, old test: "can I do their texts justice?" I've translated twenty-one books, and except for three commissions, I "hand-picked" all my authors on the basis of whether my own peculiar idiosyncrasies would complement their own.

Re-introducing Aquaman and getting him to a place like that and then ultimately having him headline a Justice League storyline that crosses over between his book and Justice League really is the culmination of where we've been going with the character since the beginning. His role in this will change the Justice League storyline, it will change him, and it will send them both in new directions.

Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

Relations between States, as between individuals, must be regulated not by armed force, but in accordance with...truth, justice and vigorous and sincere co-operation.

Religion does not confirm that there are hungry people in the world; it interprets the hungry to be our brethren whom we allow to starve.