Justice Quotes - Page 25

• Good deal: justice for you, mercy for me.

  Mason Cooley

  Mercy, Deals

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• Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Opportunity, Doors, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.631, Modern Library

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• It is fit that justice should be administered with great caution.

  Tony Abbott

  Fit, Should, Caution

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• We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration.

  Tony Abbott

  Country, Suffering, Administration

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• The courts are an easy scapegoat because at a time when everything has to boiled down to easy slogans, we speak in subtleties.

  Rose Bird

  Speak, Easy, Court

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• The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.

  William J. Brennan

  Religious, Exercise, Government

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• 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

  Mind, Ordinary, Logic

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Abraham Lawrence Sainer (1999). “Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo”, p.424, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• It is not uncommon for ignorant and corrupt men to falsely charge others with doing what they imagine that they themselves, in their narrow minds and experience, would have done under the circumstances of a given case, and the surest check, often the only check, on such perjury, is to recognize the impossibility that men of larger instruction and resources and experience could have been guilty of such conduct.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Men, Ignorant, Mind

  Valdez v. United States, 244 U.S. 432, 450, 1917.

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• I should be extremely sorry to find that in a fictitious proceeding, instituted for the more easy attaining of justice, different rules were to obtain in the different Courts.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Different, Easy

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• A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Action, Court, Shows

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• It is a rule that those who come into a Court of justice to seek redress, must come with clean hands, and must disclose a transaction warranted by law.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hands, Law, Clean

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• Courts of equity make their decrees so as to arrive at the justice of the case without violating the rules of law.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Law, Court, Decree

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• I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Pain, Disappointment, Optimistic

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• Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

  Neutrality, Impartiality, Partiality

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• Look at the Justice Department, it's full of Jews...The lawyers in government are damn Jews.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Art, Men, Law

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• The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.

  Thomas G. Stemberg

  Jobs, America, Growth

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• The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.

  Antonin Scalia

  Law, People, Speech

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• It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

  Ida Tarbell

  Women, Equality, Movement

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• It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Men, Lawyer, Habit

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• It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Grateful, Men

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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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• Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars.

  Aristotle

  Law, Principles, Owing

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.2035, Princeton University Press

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• Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue.

  Aristotle

  Government, Views, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.106, Aristotle

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• In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Men, Law

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.116, Aristotle

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• The Wheels of Justice turn slowly but exceedingly fine.

  Unknown

  Investing, Wheels, Fine

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