Justice Quotes - Page 37

• Justice is a terrible but necessary thing.

  Jessamyn West

  Umpires, Terrible, Necessary Things

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• Prejudice is an opinion without judgment.

  Voltaire

  Prejudice, Opinion, Judgment

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.120, Penguin

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• I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.

  John Webster

  Summer, Fear, Heart

  'The White Devil' (1612) act 1, sc. 2, l. 47

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• Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven.

  Voltaire

  Kings, War, Europe

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.152, Penguin

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• When justices seize authority from the other branches of the federal government, as well as state and local governments, under the rubric of judicial review, that’s tyranny.

  Mark Levin

  Government, Judicial Review, Branches

  "Men in Black". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 1, 2005.

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• Activist Supreme Courts are not new. The Dred Scott decision in 1856, imposing slavery in free territories; the Plessy decision in 1896, imposing segregation on a private railroad company; the Korematsu decision in 1944, upholding Franklin Roosevelt’s internment of American citizens, mostly Japanese Americans; and the Roe decision in 1973, imposing abortion on the entire nation; are examples of the consequences of activist Courts and justices.

  Mark Levin

  Decision, Abortion, Slavery

  "Men in Black". Interview with Kathryn Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. February 1, 2005.

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• By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

  John Wesley

  Recovery, Mean, Heaven

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.219

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• People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty or justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.

  Adam Smith

  Law, People, Liberty

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 1, bk. 1, ch. 10 (1776)

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• The bow of God's wrath is bent, and His arrows made ready upon the string. Justice points the arrow at your heart and strings the bow. It is nothing but the mere pleasure of God (and that of an angry God without any promise or obligation at all) that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Heart, Arrows, Wrath

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• I want to say 'I Shot The Police' but the government would have made a fuss so I said 'I Shot The Sheriff' insteadbut it's the same idea: justice.

  Bob Marley

  Government, Ideas, Police

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• Stop doing wrong, learn to do right! Seek justice, encourage the oppressed. Defend the cause of the fatherless, plead the case of the widow.

  Isaiah

  Widows, Causes, Cases

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• But the LORD Almighty will be exalted by his justice, and the holy God will show himself holy by his righteousness.

  Isaiah

  Lord, Holy, Almighty

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• Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

  Isaiah

  Rights, Law, Issues

  Isaiah 10:1-4, www.biblegateway.com.

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• Sustainability is another word for justice, for what is just is sustainable and what is unjust is not.

  Matthew Fox

  Unjust, Social Justice, Sustainability

  Matthew Fox (2006). “A New Reformation: Creation Spirituality and the Transformation of Christianity”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Not all citizens can be equally strong; but they can all be equally free.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Citizens, Social Justice

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• A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street and . . . ooooohhhhhh, that's much better.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Friendship, Humor

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• . . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

  Jack London

  Life, Whales, Broken

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• I bought a dog the other day. . . . I named him Stay. It's fun to call him. . . . "Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay!" He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.

  Steven Wright

  Dog, Fun, Insanity

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• Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

  Steven Wright

  Cat, Cooking, Mice

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• It's been the same since caveman days, this game of love - they just changed the trumps from clubs to diamonds.

  Louise Erickson

  Love, Games, Clubs

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• We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!

  Edward Young

  Time, Mirrors, Assault

  Edward Young (1813). “Night Thoughts, on Life, Death and Immortality”, p.73

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• May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

  John Newton

  Feet, Done, May

  John Newton (1847). “One Hundred and Twenty Nine Letters from the Rev. John Newton ... to the Rev. William Bull, of Newport Pagnell: Written During a Period of Thirty-two Years, from 1773 to 1805 ...”, p.206

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• Thus, the struggle for peace includes the struggle for freedom and justice for the masses of all countries.

  Arthur Henderson

  Country, Struggle, Mass

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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

  Francis Bacon

  Revenge, Classic, Kind

  Essays "Of Revenge" (1625)

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• I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.

  David Zucker

  Life, Depressing, Believe

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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