Best 4420 quotes in «justice quotes» category

Everyday I become more convinced, there is no doubt in my mind, and as many intellectuals have said, that it is necessary to transcend capitalism. But capitalism can't be transcended from with capitalism itself, but through socialism, true socialism, with equality and justice. I'm also convinced that it is possible to do it under democracy, but not in the type of democracy being imposed by Washington.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

Every extension of the functions and power of the State beyond its primary duty of maintaining peace and justice should be scrutinized with jealous vigilance.

Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.

Every institution places its ultimate weight on preserving its own life. That is why the Church emphasizes loving God over loving one's neighbor.... The push for justice on the other hand might be at the center of the Gospel but it also attacks the balance of power in the society. Since the rich always exploit the poor, to give the poor power, dignity and humanity makes them less pliable, less cooperative.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

Everyone is now a customer or client, and every relationship is ultimately judged in bottom-line, cost-effective terms. Freedom is no longer about equality, social justice, or the public welfare, but about the trade in goods, financial capital, and commodities.

Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.

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.

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.

Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity.

Every situation of justice is an occasion where someone is being humiliated and they want to restore their dignity. They think, "I am a human being and I may not be able to defeat these people or destroy them, but I will hit out at them, because I am not a thing, I am human.

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous; but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

Exclusion is never the way forward on our shared paths to freedom and justice.

Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.

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

Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

Experts say that if children can't read by the end of the fifth grade, they lose self-confidence and self-esteem, making them more likely to enter the juvenile justice system.

Extreme justice is extreme injustice.

Expediency often silences justice.

Fairness is what justice really is.

Fair play is a jewel.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice. Justice requires that we carefully weigh rights and privileges and assure that each member of a community receives his due share. Love does not weigh rights and privileges too carefully because it prompts each to bear the burden of the other.

Fairness and justice will be the base of my government.

Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.

Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.

Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

Fear of difference is fear of life itself.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren't rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.

Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just.

Fictions of law must be consistent with justice.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Fighting for social justice is not about leaving the mainstream. It is about being right in the middle of it.

Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights, but you'll remain Jews nonetheless.