Justice Quotes - Page 19

• Having advanced to the limit of boldness, child, you have stumbled against the lofty pedestal of Justice.

  Sophocles

  Children, Limits, Pedestal

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• Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or male customer, there are 50 girls who are arrested for being prostitutes. Other countries have tried the other way around, and it works beautifully...they bring the charges against the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers, and they do not prosecute the girls, who quite often are brought into that trade involuntarily. It works quite well, by the way.

  Jimmy Carter

  Girl, Country, Reality

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• But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

  Jimmy Carter

  Love, Simple

  1976 Democratic National Convention Acceptance Address, delivered 15 July, 1976

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• Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Military, Simple

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• Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

  Blaise Pascal

  Strong, Power, Men

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• It is dangerous to tell the people that the laws are unjust; for they obey them only because they think them just. Therefore it isnecessary to tell them at the same time that they must obey them because they are laws, just as they must obey superiors, not because they are just, but because they are superiors. In this way all sedition is prevented.

  Blaise Pascal

  Thinking, Law, People

  Blaise Pascal, Richard Henry Popkin (1989). “Pascal selections”, Macmillan Pub Co

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• We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

  Thomas Paine

  Age, Extravagance, Want

  Thomas Paine (2016). “THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including “The Life of Thomas Paine”): Deistic Critique of Bible and Christian Church”, p.350, e-artnow

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• It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general withtheir vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.

  John Dos Passos

  Struggle, Power, Men

  John Dos Passos (2010). “The Ground We Stand on: The History of a Political Creed”, p.21, Transaction Publishers

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• ... censorship often boils down to some male judges getting to read a lot of dirty books--with one hand.

  Robin Morgan

  Book, Dirty, Hands

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.54, Open Road Media

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• Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Order

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• Prosecutors insist they are mounting a "thorough investigation," which sometimes means thorough and sometimes, historically, has meant long enough to let the fire burn down in an incendiary case. A thorough investigation is fine; an interminable one is disgraceful.

  Anna Quindlen

  Mean, Fire, Long

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• Every obstruction of the course of justice,--is a door opened to betray society, and bereave us of those blessings which it has inview.... It is a strange way of doing honour to God, to screen actions which are a disgrace to humanity.

  Laurence Sterne

  Blessing, Doors, Law

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.513

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• Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I,
  To mourn, and murmur and repine,
  To see the wicked placed on high,
  In pride and robes of honor shine.
  But oh, their end, their dreadful end,
  Thy sanctuary taught me so,
  On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand,
  And fiery billows roll below.

  Isaac Watts

  Pride, Power, Rocks

  Thomas Hastings, Isaac Watts, William Patton (1836). “The Christian Psalmist: Or, Watts' Psalms and Hymns, with Copious Selections from Other Sources”, p.127

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• 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.

  Elias Canetti

  Heart, Law, Community

  Elias Canetti (1962). “Crowds and power: Masse und Macht]”

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• Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg apparently called President Obama directly to complain about NSA and how it spies on ordinary Americans. That's right, the guy who runs Facebook got mad at the NSA for spying on people. Talk about the pot unfriending the kettle!

  Jimmy Fallon

  Leadership, Running, Zuckerberg

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• Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.

  Ugo Betti

  Errors, Custodians, World

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• Let us have justice, and then we shall have enough liberty!

  Joseph Joubert

  Freedom, Liberty, Enough

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• In her present ignorance, woman's religion, instead of making her noble and free, by the wrong application of great principles ofright and justice, has made her bondage but more certain and lasting, her degradation more hopeless and complete.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Ignorance, Religion, Principles

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• I believe everything to be just when a king ordains it.

  Pierre Corneille

  Kings, Believe, Monarchy

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• On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which becomes at the White House is more in keeping with the temperament, but when taken into consideration that I go into history as President, and my children and my children's children are the better placed on account of that fact, I am inclined to think that to be President well compensates one for all the trials and criticisms he has to bear and undergo.

  William Howard Taft

  Children, Taken, Thinking

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• One must know that war is common, justice is strife, and everything happens according to strife and necessity.

  Heraclitus

  War, Common, Strife

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• To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

  Heraclitus

  Beautiful, God, Thinking

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• A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

  Samuel Richardson

  Men, Good Man, Patriotism

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.283

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• You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.

  Jean Racine

  Order, Guilt, Justify

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• Mankind are always found prodigal both of blood and treasure in the maintenance of public justice.

  David Hume

  Blood, Maintenance, Treasure

  David Hume (1825). “Essays and treatises on several subjects: essays, moral, political and literary”, p.28

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