Quotes About Justice Is Blind

#1. Voluptuousness, like justice, is blind, but that is the only resemblance between them.

Blaise Pascal

#2. Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.

Jason Jones

#4. Some people do good to undo the crimes they have done and some do crimes to do good because in the end justice is blind.

Amit Abraham

#5. One recognises that the partisan spirit makes people blind, makes them deaf to justice, pushes even decent men cruelly to persecute innocent targets. One recognises it, and yet nobody suggests getting rid of the organisations that generate such evils.

Simone Weil

#6. Justice may be blind but it loves the sound of money.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In this case, the goddess of justice was blind.

Charlie Munger

#8. Langston Hughes, who wrote, "That Justice is a blind goddess/Is a thing to which we black are wise:/Her bandage hides two festering sores/That once perhaps were eyes." As

C. Arthur Ellis Jr

#9. Justice without compassion was the destroyer of morality, a slayer blind to empathy.

Steven Erikson

#10. Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

#11. I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Vachel Lindsay

#12. Justice
That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.

Langston Hughes

#13. People talk about evidence as if it could really be weighed in scales by a blind Justice.

George Eliot

#14. Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.

Ada Cambridge

#15. We have allowed the system to be so corrupted that many want justice to be "empathetic," not blind.

Glenn Beck

#16. Justice may be blind, but she was an awesome elixir.

Darynda Jones

#17. Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is always, therefore, represented as blind.

Joseph Addison

#18. Justice Jefferson has a blind spot on race. You know, more than a blind spot. A terrible blemish on his legacy, slavery, for which he's properly excoriated. So, I think [Louis] Brandeis has done this as well.

Jeffrey Rosen

#19. The justice should be blind, while medicine should be double blind," he reflected, referring to 'double blind' trials of medical research.

Atul Agarwal

#20. Only losers and amateurs blame the cards. After all, cards don't care; they don't take sides, and they have no memory. They are blind justice holding her scales, and in the long run they'll tip evenly for the novice and the skilled alike.

Lou Krieger

#21. Consider intentions carefully. Karma gives a damn about ego, awards allegiance to none, and its justice is truly blind.

T.F. Hodge

#22. It's natural to want mercy for yourself but justice for others. It's natural to be very aware of the sin others, yet blind to your own. If we are ever going to be people of mercy, we need bountiful mercy ourselves, because what stands in the way of our being a community of mercy is us.

Paul David Tripp

#23. At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.

Martin Guevara Urbina

#24. I am visible-see this Indian face-yet I am invisible. I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist. They'd like to think I have melted in the pot. But I haven't. We haven't.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

#25. We're like the Three Musketeers, searching for truth and justice and the American way.:
Glitch snorted. More like the Three Blind Mice, stumbling around trying to find a hunk of cheese in the dark.

Darynda Jones

#26. Justice should be blind especially color-blind and able to fairly deal with the very real need for honest law enforcement.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#27. Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

Nancy Gibbs

#28. Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.

Bryan Stevenson

#29. Justice could be as blind as love.

Toba Beta

#30. Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

William Penn

#31. Social justice has to do with issues such as poverty, inequality, war, racism, sexism, abortion, and lack of concern for ecology because what lies at the root at each of these is not so much someone's private sin but rather a huge, blind system that is inherently unfair.

Ronald Rolheiser

#32. Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.

Orson Scott Card

#33. A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes.

Eli Ashpence

#34. The human element in any system is always prone to error. Why should the courts be any different? They are not. Our blind trust in the system is the product of ignorance ...

William Landay

#35. Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder.

Rohinton Mistry

#36. Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Herb Kohl

#37. I prefer my justice to be blind.

Amy A. Bartol

#38. One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.

Charles Brenton Huggins

#39. Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Thomas Otway

#40. The horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#41. Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man's hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook

B.C. Forbes