Justice Quotes - Page 29

• And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fate, Men, Hurtful

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.83, Penguin

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• We might adapt for the artist the joke about there being nothing more dangerous than instruments of war in the hands of generals. In the same way, there is nothing more dangerous than justice in the hands of judges, and a paint brush in the hands of a painter! Just think of the danger to society! But today we haven't the heart to expel the painters and poets because we no longer admit to ourselves that there is any danger in keeping them in our midst.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, War, Thinking

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• People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

  Martha Manning

  Struggle, Heart, Diversity

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• If the ecological crisis, for example, is to be solved and if we are to promote genuine justice and thus bring real peace to the planet-and with it the possibility of improving lives on every level, not just economically, socially, and politically, but spiritually, psychologically, and intellectually-then, just on a practical level, we need to have all of the religions working together.

  Wayne Teasdale

  Real, Working Together, Example

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• Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.

  Jean Maalouf

  Kindness, Genuine Love, Giving

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• We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

  Christina Baldwin

  Peace, Responsibility, Names

  Christina Baldwin (2009). “Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture”, p.22, Bantam

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• I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

  Pierre Trudeau

  May, Want, Sin

  Interview, Ottawa, 22 Dec. 1967

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• The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

  Reed Hundt

  Fcc, Competition, Auctions

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• More laws, less justice.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Law, Liberty, Libertarian

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• Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Kindness, Compassion, Equality

  Entry of December 1863 or early 1864, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Humphry Ward, 1893.

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• But a writing project begins not just in doubt but also in faith-that if your passion is genuine, if you have mastered the elements of your craft, in the act of writing you will learn the rest of what you need to know in order to do justice to your subject.

  Philip Gerard

  Passion, Writing, Order

  Philip Gerard (2000). “Writing a Book That Makes a Difference”, Story Press

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• It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of those schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Children, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.567, Modern Library

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• Don't just get mad, try a little creative revenge ... Creative revenge ... allows you to get even - to extract some satisfactory justice - when you are wronged, but lets you do it with a sense of humor, not boiling malice.

  Sonia Friedman

  Revenge, Anger, Mad

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• He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Mean, Son

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• We live in a country that talks about being the home of the brave and the land of the free, and we have the highest incarceration rate in the world.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Country, Father, Home

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• There are those men who say to repay evil with kindness. But I say, how then are we to repay kindness? Repay kindness with kindness, but repay evil with justice.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Men, Evil

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• If an agency is the ultimate judge in every case of conflict, then it is also judge in all conflicts involving itself. Consequently, instead of merely preventing and resolving conflict, a monopolist of ultimate decision making will also cause and provoke conflict in order to settle it to his own advantage. That is, if one can only appeal to the state for justice, justice will be perverted in the favor of the state, constitutions and supreme courts notwithstanding.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Order, Agency, Judging

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Sukrit Sabhlok (2012). “Journal of Peace, Prosperity and Freedom: Volume 1 (2012)”, p.19, Createspace Publishing

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• Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dark, Path, Valleys

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• Justice has always evoked ideas of Equality, of proportion of compensation. In short, Justice is another name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Names, Ideas, Liberty

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• Do not worry about tricks and cheaters. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, Allah is also trapping them. Hole diggers will always fall in their holes. No bad remains unpunished, and no good remains without being awarded, so have faith in justice and let the rest be.

  Shams Tabrizi

  Hurt, Fall, Cheater

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• Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Your Side, Forever, Sides

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• In The Federalist, James Madison called the rage for equality 'a wicked project.' People differ and rewards differ-that's the essence of both liberty and justice. No nation that rewards effort, talent, inventiveness and luck can even pretend to cherish equal outcomes. In an inventive and dynamic society, equal (even relatively equal) incomes can be achieved only by abandoning liberty for tyranny.

  Michael Novak

  Essence, People, Effort

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• In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Mistake, Struggle

  Speech delivered in Finney Chapel at Oberlin College, February 7, 1957.

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• And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice.

  Barack Obama

  Long, Arms, Citizens

  "Barack Obama condemns 'brutal murder' of American photojournalist" by Martin Chulov and Emma Graham-Harrison, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2014.

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• It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world.

  Barack Obama

  Country, People, World

  Remarks by the President in Town Hall at Benedict College, Columbia, SC, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 06, 2015.

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