Top 100 Justice It Quotes
#1. You can't trap justice. It's an idea, a belief.
Brad Pitt
#2. Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different things.
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Nien Cheng
#3. Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told. It was justice, it was all the people showing how much they hated this crime. Killing was justice when everybody joined in.
Barry Unsworth
#4. Publicity is the very soul of justice. It is the keenest spur to exertion, and the surest of all guards against improbity.
Jeremy Bentham
#5. Our planet has run out of patience. So has our sense of justice. It is time to step it up - and up - and up - until we reach the only goal that really matters: peace among people and peace between people and nature.
Ross Gelbspan
#6. A God of love must be a God of justice. It is because God loves that He is just. His justice balances His love and makes His acts of both
love and justice meaningful.
Billy Graham
#7. Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
George Bancroft
#8. Are you telling me that men are compelled by the mere fact of their gender to choose violence as their first resort?"
"Partly. It satisfies our sense of justice, it makes us feel good, and it always improves our odds with women.
Kate Meader
#9. If the long arc of history bends toward social justice, it also bends toward environmental justice and ecological sanity.
David Jaber
#10. Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.
James Joyce
#11. Our flag means all that our fathers meant in the Revolutionary War. It means all that the Declaration of Independence meant. It means justice. It means liberty. It means happiness ... Every color means liberty. Every thread means liberty. Every star and stripe means liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher
#12. We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.
Annie Lennox
#13. It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the deserving is not charity at all, but justice. It is the undeserving who require it, and the ideal either does not exist at all, or exists wholly for them.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#14. Limitation is not a matter of justice. It is a rule of public policy which has its origin in history and its justification in convenience.
Alfred Denning, Baron Denning
#15. This led to a lessening of confidence in the judicial system. Justice, it seemed, was available only to those who could pay enough to secure a 'right verdict
Alison Weir
#16. The atomic weapons race and the secrecy surrounding it crushed American democracy. It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.
Stewart Udall
#17. Law is enforced the way the law is written; it's not about true justice, it's about interpretation of the law and who has the best lawyer.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#18. In the rush for justice it is important not to lose sight of principles the country holds dear.
Kofi Annan
#19. If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.
Neal Brennan
#20. I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I could not spare you pain and humiliation, I make you a gift of my own pains and humiliations, that yours might be easier to bear.
Diana Gabaldon
#21. I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.
Sid Meier
#22. As we say at Year Up all the time, investing in our young people is not just a matter of economic justice. It's good business sense.
Gerald Chertavian
#23. Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.
William J. Clinton
#24. Anytime I've had a big thing that's ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn't have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly.
Kanye West
#25. The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.
Joe Barton
#26. Peaceful death is really an essential human right, more essential perhaps even than the right to vote or the right to justice; it is a right on which, all religious traditions tell us, a great deal depends for the well-being and spiritual future of the dying person. There
Sogyal Rinpoche
#27. You don't ask of Justice; it asks of you.
-Danny Rollings
James Fox
#28. Who thinks the law has anything to do with justice? It's what we have because we can't have justice.
William McIlvanney
#29. The White Savior Industrial Complex is not about justice. It is about having a big emotional experience that validates privilege.
Teju Cole
#30. The idea of God implies the abdication of human reason and justice; it is the most decisive negation of human liberty and necessarily ends in the enslavement of mankind both in theory and practice.
Mikhail Bakunin
#31. 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.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#32. Unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.
Khalil Gibran
#33. Without the tape-recorded evidence demonstrating irrefutably, in Nixon's own voice, his knowledge of and active involvement in obstruction of justice, it is likely that Nixon would have escaped impeachment and removal from office.
Richard Ben-Veniste
#34. There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice
Chris Hedges
#35. Life isn't about being fair," he breathed. "It's not about justice. It's all about endurance and how much we can suffer through.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#36. Girls' education is a human right. And along with its fundamental justice, it promises so much for the individual, for her family, for society, for all of us.
Ann Cotton
#37. Charity, as a supplement to justice, should be applauded. But charity as a substitute for justice is neither charity nor justice. It is cruelty. The
Sarah Kendzior
#38. Politics is not about justice. It's about the settling of personal vendettas under a thin veneer of civilization. All politics is personal.
Cinda Williams Chima
#39. The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
#40. You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
Birch Bayh
#41. I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.
Sonia Sotomayor
#42. Death is the greatest justice, it never discriminates.
M.F. Moonzajer
#43. We love to talk about justice. It's the doing of justice that's hard ... I believe it is work we are called to do
Gene Robinson
#44. Forgiveness doesn't diminish justice; it just entrusts it to God. He guarantees the right retribution.
Max Lucado
#45. To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you.
Pope Francis
#46. I feel like there was justice. It was served through the legal system you know. Everything that I endured. It was all worth it.
Amber Frey
#47. And this is an administration - we're not into nation-building, we're focused on justice. And we're going to get justice. It's going to take a while, probably. But I'm a patient man. Nothing will diminish my will and my determination - nothing.
George W. Bush
#48. Our power does not know liberty or justice. It is established on the destruction of the individual will.
Vladimir Lenin
#49. The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.
Learned Hand
#50. The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#51. That's what Society does
spread the blame so there is no villain, so it's futile to even begin to find a villain, to find justice. It's just machinery. Processes.
Pierce Brown
#52. But it was only a word - justice. It was only a concept, and it wasn't enough.
Cristina Henriquez
#53. The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our
birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes
twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it
out of them.
Edward Abbey
#54. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life.
[ Live 8 Concert, Mary Fitzgerald Square, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 July 2005]
Nelson Mandela
#55. This is so unfair to you. (Ryssa)
Life isn't about being fair. It's not about justice. It's all about endurance and how much we can suffer through. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#56. The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#57. And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.
Robert Mueller
#58. I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Jonathan Swift
#59. What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.
Howard Zinn
#60. It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.
Socrates
#61. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!
Anne Frank
#62. Love is such a thing. You have knowledge of what it is, but it defies careful explication."
"Love is a subtle concept," I admitted. "It's elusive, like justice, but it can be defined.
Patrick Rothfuss
#63. [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#64. The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.
Tecumseh
#65. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#66. Reelection ought not to be the primary preoccupation of any politician. It ought to be standing up for truth and justice.
Cornel West
#67. Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units.
Carl Jung
#68. It's not right because it just isn't. You can't go round making up evidence just because you're convinced someone is guilty. You can't be judge and jury; that's not your job. (Liz)
Stella Rimington
#69. See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
H. Rap Brown
#70. The nature of the criminal justice system has changed. It is no longer primarily concerned with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed.
Michelle Alexander
#71. A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious ... When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability.
Alexander Hamilton
#72. God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency.
Robert Browning
#73. Justice is like the north star, which is fixed, and all the rest revolve about it.
Confucius
#74. When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.
Criss Jami
#75. It is clear that those constitutions which aim at the common good are right, as being in accord with absolute justice; while those which aim only at the good of the rulers are wrong.
Aristotle.
#76. It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have an ounce of strength left in me, or any life left in me.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#77. A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.
Jean De La Bruyere
#78. It is the sort of suffering that cannot be done justice with words. I can say only this - that I suspect it is an anguish from which one never recovers. A walking death.
Seth Grahame-Smith
#79. It wasn't for nothing that the raven was just now croaking on my left hand.
Plautus
#80. When we destroy it." She spoke clearly now, steadily now. "If it comes in a form with a dick, I will personally castrate it".
Nora Roberts
#81. In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.
Albert Camus
#82. Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court.
Sandra Day O'Connor
#83. It may be true that the weak will always be driven to the wall; but it is the task of a just society to see that the wall is climbable.
Sydney J. Harris
#84. I was a huge movie watcher, but I really loved 'Kenan & Kel,' 'Rugrats,' 'Doug,' & 'Catdog.' I was also into drama films, though, and I really loved 'Poetic Justice' and 'Set it Off.'
Raven Goodwin
#85. I have no time to explain now. It is a thrilling tale, I wish to do it justice.
J.K. Rowling
#86. [Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause?
Alex Kozinski
#87. By my soul! I would rather have a dry death," quoth Sir Oliver. "Though, Mort Dieu! I have eaten so many fish that it were but justice that the fish should eat me.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#88. May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#89. Rules, established with reason and justice, can easily outlive their usefulness as circumstances change, yet can remain in force through inertia. It is then not only right, but useful, to break those rules as a way of advertising the fact that they have become useless - or even actually harmful.
Isaac Asimov
#90. Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages, all the while justifying them on the basis of collective values. pg. 199
Shamus Rahman Khan
#91. It is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.
Adolf Hitler
#92. Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?
Nelson Mandela
#93. Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.
David Gemmell
#94. History matters. It matters whether we tell the truth about what happened centuries ago, and it matters whether we tell the truth about more recent history. It matters because if we can't we will never be able to face the present, guaranteeing that our future will be doomed.
Robert Jensen
#95. Justice will be served
And the battle will rage
This big dog will fight
When you rattle his cage
And you'll be sorry that you messed with
The U.S. of A.
'Cause we'll put a boot in your *ss
It's the American way
Toby Keith
#96. Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.
Leo Tolstoy
#97. It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in considerations of administrative convenience, or practical expediency, and not in rules of logic.
Benjamin Cardozo
#98. Life can be seen through several spectrums of light, but it's the person who is doing the soul searching that defines what they may see.
Nadege Richards
#99. Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.
Thomas Aquinas
#100. The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
