Presence Of Justice Quotes

#1. Gradually, by selective breeding, the congenital differences between rulers
and ruled will increase until they become almost different species. A revolt
of the plebs would become as unthinkable as an organized insurrection of
sheep against the practice of eating mutton.

Bertrand Russell

#2. No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren't designed to produce them, if we don't speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

Donella Meadows

#3. A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion.

H.L. Mencken

#4. People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#5. For men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.

Victor Hugo

#6. Peace is not merely the absence of war but the presence of justice, of law, of order - in short, of government.

Albert Einstein

#7. True peace required the presence of justice, not just the absence of conflict.

N.K. Jemisin

#8. I'm probably half in love with a boy I don't really like.

Gwen Hayes

#9. There are only two ways that God's justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God's presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.

R.C. Sproul

#10. Real peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the presence of justice.

Andrew W. Marlowe

#11. Vicars, MPS and lawyers were amont those who considered me to be the best hostess in London.

Cynthia Payne

#12. I never pressure myself to do something I don't want to do.

Eric Ripert

#13. It's not enough to be quiet. Quietness is the absence of noise. We need peace, the presence of justice and to be - and so people here can coexist and live together.

Jesse Jackson

#14. There are definitely aspects of that kind of stuff. The whole team [of Legends of Tommorow] gets thrown together. They don't really know each other like that. They haven't worked together before.

Franz Drameh

#15. The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

Blaise Pascal

#16. My fault? How the hell is this"
I waved my arm across the table
my fault?"
"You know we don't believe in hell, so stop using that word in our presence," Bridie said.
"Fine. How in fucked-up fairyland is this my fault?

Barbra Annino

#17. When we stand for social justice, we testify to the presence of the Kingdom.

John Wimber

#18. I love a girl with a good sense of humour, who is confident but who has a sweetness to her - that melts my heart.

Gerard Butler

#19. I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.

Lawrence Welk

#20. I'm going to worship you every day for the rest of my life.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#21. 11Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him. 12And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

Anonymous

#22. Many are observing Ferguson and witnessing the anger, demonstrations, looting and vandalism and calling for quiet. But quiet isn't enough. The absence of noise isn't the presence of justice - and we must demand justice in Ferguson and the other 'Fergusons' around America.

Jesse Jackson

#23. It must be remembered that genuine peace is not the absence of tension, but the presence of justice.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#24. The absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#25. I suppose if there is to be some judgement after death, a god will be the one to judge me, but it doesn't frighten me in the least. I did nothing wrong. I reserve the right to declare the justice of my case in anyone's presence.

Haruki Murakami

#26. Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called 'heightened interrogation'. The rules had been drawn up by civilised men in warm offices and they stipulated the presence of a doctor.

Robert Harris

#27. The human soul finds its saddest imprisonment when it is helpless in the presence of cruelty, when it cannot right a wrong. It finds its highest freedom when it can secure justice to others.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones

#28. The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness.

William Hazlitt

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

Gerald Vizenor

#30. Damn it, woman," he snapped. "Stop crying. Are you hysterical?"
"Maybe." Her voice was muffled by the pillow and her hands.

-Maxim & Airiana

Christine Feehan

#31. Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice.

Harrison Ford

#32. If thirst for water indicates the existence of water, in a similar way thirst for justice indicates the existence of justice, and since there is no justice in this world, this is indicates the presence of an afterlife, the home of true justice.

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#33. True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

Jane Addams