Justice Quotes - Page 38

• We must together build an economic agenda for the India of our dreams that translates into improved standards of living, increased human well-being and assured social justice.

  Narendra Modi

  Dream, Together, India

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• We, the present generation, have the responsibility to act as a trustee of the rich natural wealth for the future generations. The issue is not merely about climate change; it is about climate justice.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, Issues, Climate

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• 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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• Jesus doesn't just want songs. He wants justice for the people on planet Earth.

  Louie Giglio

  Leadership, Christian, Song

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• Justice and truth are the common ties of society

  John Locke

  Ties, Society, Common

  John Locke (1828). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding: To which are Now First Added, I. An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas, on a Large Sheet. II. A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion Concerning Personal Identity, with an Appendix. III. A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding. IV. Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman. V. Elements of Natural Philosophy. VI. A New Method of a Common Place-book Extracted from the Author's Works”, p.35

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• Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.

  Scott Adams

  Fashion, Business, Clothes

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• The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Real, Diversity, Joy

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• To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers, may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.

  Adam Smith

  Government, Sight, People

  An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations vol. 2, bk. 4, ch. 7 (1776). Other quotation compilations have this ending with "whose government is influenced by shopkeepers," but the first edition reads as above. See Napoleon 5; Josiah Tucker 1

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• Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?

  Dorothy Thompson

  Home, Equality, Men

  Dorothy Thompson (1939). “Let the Record Speak”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Hate, Diversity, Hatred

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• Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Law, Diversity, May

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• We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth. We invented a medium of exchange, mined silver and gold, made pottery and cutlery, we fashioned tools and utensils of brass, bronze, ivory, quartz, and granite. We had our own literature, our own systems of law, religion, medicine, science, and education.

  Richard Wright

  Iron, Ivory, Medicine

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• Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.

  Richard Wright

  Thinking, Land, Cities

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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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• How unfair the fate which ordains that those who have the least should be always adding to the treasury of the wealthy.

  Terence

  Fate, Unfair, Should

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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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• 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 U.S. doesn't recognize the laws of Cuba. They can kidnap anybody and bring them back to the States to face the so-called justice system. There's no telling what the U.S. government will do to me. I'm in constant danger; I guess I've gotten used to it.

  Assata Shakur

  Law, Government, Faces

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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 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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• Oh, how hard it is to find The one just suited to our mind!

  Thomas Campbell

  Mind, Hard

  Thomas Campbell (1839). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: Including Theodric, and Many Other Pieces Not Contained in Any Former Edition”, p.164

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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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