Justice Quotes - Page 18

• Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Believe, Heart, World

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• It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists.

  Serj Tankian

  Mean, Responsibility, Artist

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• I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

  Bram Fischer

  Past, Years, Way

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• The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

  R. C. Sproul

  Thinking, Talking, Alarms

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• I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.

  David Liss

  League, Fans, Bigs

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• God is truly on the side of those who work for social justice, especially when we accompany that work with the giving of the Gospel!

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Accompany Us, Giving, Sides

  "Joni Eareckson Tada on Wilberforce Award, 'Better Off Dead Than Disabled' Mentality". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 16, 2012.

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• The ethical practices of lawyers are probably no worse than those of other professions. Lawyers bring some of the trouble on by claiming in a sanctimonious way that they are interested only in justice, not power or wealth. They also suffer guilt by association. Their clients are often people in trouble. Saints need no lawyers: gangsters do.

  Lawrence M. Friedman

  Practice, People, Suffering

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• The book, called the Bible, is filled with passages equally horrible, unjust and atrocious. This is the book to be read in schools in order to make our children loving, kind and gentle! This is the book they wish to be recognized in our Constitution as the source of all authority and justice!

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Children, Book, School

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• To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

  Stephen Burt

  Unique, Poetry, Typical

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• Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

  Emily Saliers

  Responsibility, Fighting, Artist

  "An Interview with the Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers". Interview with Marissa Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Concrete, Steel & Paint portrays the core values of restorative justice-respect, responsibility and relationships-expressed through art. it is art that involves victims, offenders and communities in a dialogue that is sometimes difficult and painful, sometimes reconciling, but always engaging. As one prisoner says in the film, 'We have come together collectively through art.' It will be a great discussion tool for college classes, community groups and others interested in issues of justice, community-building, conflict resolution and socially-engaged art.

  Howard Zehr

  Art, Responsibility, College

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• Texans for Public Justice, an anti-corruption group based in Texas applauded the indictment. No jury can undo the outcome of Texas 2002 elections, ... but the justice system must punish those who criminally conspire to undermine democracy no matter how powerful they may be. If we are to be a democracy, then powerful politicians cannot flout such laws with impunity.

  Craig McDonald

  Powerful, Texas, Law

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• A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies - not all about the brand, the celebrity or corporate self-interest (about the book 'Compassion, Inc.').

  Rebecca Aguilar

  Book, Compassion, Self

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• We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.

  William J. Brennan

  Mean, Principles, Needs

  "The Constitution of the United States: Contemporary Ratification" (speech),Washington, D.C., 12 Oct. 1985

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• If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Doubt, Together, Vengeance

  Leo Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy (graf), Reginald Frank Christian (1978). “Tolstoy's Letters: 1880-1910”, Burns & Oates

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• The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Protection, Tyranny, Banner

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• There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

  Denis Diderot

  Atheism, Virtue, Fear Of Death

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• The monument serves to remind the appellate courts and judges of the circuit and district courts of this state and members of the bar who appear before them as well as the people of Alabama who visit the Alabama Judicial Building of the truth stated in the preamble of the Alabama Constitution, that in order to establish justice we must invoke the favor and guidance of Almighty God.

  Roy Moore

  Order, Judging, People

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• 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."

  Desmond Tutu

  Thinking, People, May

  "Desmond Tutu On The Role Of Religion In The Peace Process". Interview with Amina Chaudary, www.aminachaudary.com. 2010.

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• There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope.

  Woody Allen

  Way, Structure, Figures

  "Woody Allen's World: Whatever Works". Interview with Robert E. Lauder, www.commonwealmagazine.org. April 15, 2010.

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• 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

  People, Together, Needs

  "Rev. Jesse Jackson appears at protest in Ferguson". "Hannity" with Andrea Tantaros, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2014.

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• I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in Iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. I make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. They don't consider them a nuclear threat. But let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose [such a development]. Where is the justice in that?

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Country, Iran, People

  "Bashar Is Politically Dead". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 20, 2012.

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• We live under a prince who is an enemy to fraud, a prince whose eyes penetrate into the heart, and whom all the art of impostors can't deceive.

  Moliere

  Art, Eye, Hypocrisy

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• The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it, hardly more than rogues practice; and so do the neighborhood and the family. What is commonly called Friendship even is only a little more honor among rogues.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Family, Thinking, Practice

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.111, Penguin

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• The law does not generate justice. The law is nothing but a declaration and application of what is just.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Law, Doe, Declaration

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