Justice Quotes - Page 36

• On trade, our hypocrisy is at its most appalling. Trade reform isn't about charity, it's about justice, and this campaign, Trade Justice is an unstoppable idea.

  Edward de Bono

  Ideas, Hypocrisy, Reform

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• Love is stronger than justice.

  Sting

  Love, Stronger, Short Love

  Song: Love Is Stronger than Justice, Album: Ten Summoner's Tales

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• Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

  Sai Baba

  Gratitude, Educational, Discipline

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• A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.

  Francis Bacon

  Talking, Judging, Cymbals

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• Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

  Samuel Butler

  Injustice, Justice And Injustice

  Collected in H F Jones (ed) The Notebooks of Samuel Butler (1912).

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• The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct.

  Henri Rousseau

  Men, Instinct, States

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• How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

  Terence

  Unjust, Customs

  Terence (1859). “Comedies of Terence”, p.182

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• This is not about charity, it's about justice... The war against terror is bound up in the war against poverty - I didn't say that, Colin Powell said that . . .

  Edward de Bono

  War, Inspiration, Charity

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• The place of justice is a hallowed place.

  Francis Bacon

  Ears

  Francis Bacon, Thomas MARKBY (1857). “The Essays ... Revised ... by Thomas Markby ... Second Edition”, p.120

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• To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

  Lucan

  Honesty

  Lucan (1722). “Lucan's Pharsalia”, p.156

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• Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

  Elijah Muhammad

  Wise, Memorial Day, Prayer

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• Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.

  George Bancroft

  Life, Law, Soul

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• The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

  John Adams

  Ideas, Law, Liberty

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.9

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• There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

  Thomas Watson

  Soul, Unjust, Sin

  Thomas Watson (1692). “A Body of Practical Divinity: Consisting of Above 176 Sermons on the Lesser Catechism”, p.565

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• The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

  Joey Barton

  Birthday, Men, Iraq

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• In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said 'cut it out'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.

  Arleigh Burke

  Powerful, War, Mean

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• The dignity and stability of government in all its branches, the morals of the people, and every blessing of society depend so much upon an upright and skillful administration of justice, that the judicial power ought to be distinct from both the legislative and executive, and independent upon both, that so it may be a check upon both, as both should be checks upon that.

  John Adams

  Independent, Blessing, Government

  "Thoughts on Government" (1776)

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• Political movements for justice are part of the fuller development of the cosmos, and nature is the matrix in which humans come to their self-awareness of their power to transform. Liberation movements are a fuller development of the cosmos's sense of harmony, balance, justice, and celebration. This is why true spiritual liberation demands rituals of cosmic celebrating and healing, which will in turn culminate in personal transformation and liberation.

  Matthew Fox

  Spiritual, Healing, Self

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• I consider Otto Rank to be one of the great spiritual giants of the twentieth century, a genius as a psychologist and a saint as a human being. Though vilified by his original community of Freudians, he never became bitter. He died a feminist and deeply committed to social justice, in 1939....His deep understanding of creativity makes him a mentor for all of us living in a postmodern world....I believe that Art and Artist, especially chapters 12 to 14, may well emerge as the most valuable psychoanalysis of the spiritual life in our time.

  Matthew Fox

  Spiritual, Art, Believe

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• Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.

  George Bancroft

  Humanity, Example, Republic

  George Bancroft (1866). “Memorial Address on the Life and Character of Abraham Lincoln: Delivered, at the Request of Both Houses of the Congress of America, Before Them, in the House of Representatives at Washington, on the 12th of February, 1866”, p.42

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• How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

  John Howard

  Men, May, Duty

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• Nonviolent action on behalf of justice is no automatic forumla with promise of success: but neither is war. After all, at least half of the people who go to war for some cause deemed worthy of it are defeated.

  John Howard

  War, People, Promise

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• The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion.

  Voltaire

  Party, Independent, Law

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• Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Civilized Nations, Earth

  Oration on day of Justice Story's funeral, Boston, Mass., 12 Sept. 1845

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