Best 4420 quotes in «justice quotes» category

I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.

I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.

I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.

I write for the still, small possibility of justice.

Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted as suited any Supreme Court Justice or White House incumbent. That amendment had built a wall, with the ecclesiastical estate on one side and the civil estate on the other.

Jim Rich is many different things but he has a great combination of a kind of old school tabloid reporter and editor's sense for what's a great story, but he's also incredibly passionate about social justice. I think Shaun King called him the most woke editor in American, if that's a compliment.

Joe: We can't just walk out on her without saying goodbye. Jerry: What? Since when? You usually walk out and leave 'em with nothing but a kick in the teeth. Joe: That's when I was a saxophone player. Now I'm a millionaire.

Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system.

Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

Joy and pleasure is at the end of the justice. A right understanding of who God is and who we are in His creation.

Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.

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

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.

Jurors have found, again and again, and at critical moments, according to what is their sense of the rational and just. If their sense of justice has gone one way, and the case another, they have found "against the evidence," ... the English common law rests upon a bargain between the Law and the people: The jury box is where the people come into the court: The judge watches them and the people watch back. A jury is the place where the bargain is struck. The jury attends in judgment, not only upon the accused, but also upon the justice and the humanity of the Law.

Just as there is no action weaker or more unreasonable than to submit one's judgment to another's, where there is no advantage to oneself, so also there is nothing greater or wiser than to place oneself unquestioningly under God's judgment by believing in every word He speaks.

Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.

Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.

Just because you're married [to the president] doesn't mean you've given up your right to have and opinion.

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

Justice and I became friends, though we were opposites in many ways - he was extroverted, I was introverted; he was lighthearted, I was serious.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Justice deferred is justice denied.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is the priority, is peace. That is priority number one now.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering.

Justice is a dream. But it is a dream that we are determined to realize.

Justice and peace can only thrive together, never apart.

Justice begins with the recognition of the necessity of sharing. The oldest law is that which regulates it, and this is still themost important law today and, as such, has remained the basic concern of all movements which have at heart the community of human activities and of human existence in general.

Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.

Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.

Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.

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

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

Justice delayed is democracy denied.

Justice demands integrity. It’s to have a moral universe — not only know what is right or wrong but to put things in perspective, weigh things. Justice is different from violence and retribution; it requires complex accounting.

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and spirit respectively: he is disciplined when spirit and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists.

Justice is a blindfolded woman.

Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens.

Justice is expensive. That is why there is so little of it, and it is reserved for those few with enough money and influence to afford it.