Justice Quotes - Page 39

• Justice is what the judge ate for breakfast.

  Jerome Frank

  Judging, Breakfast

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• There is no happiness, there is no liberty, there is no enjoyment of life, unless a man can say, when he rises in the morning, I shall be subject to the decision of no unwise judge today.

  Daniel Webster

  Happiness, Morning, Men

  Speech, New York, N.Y., 24 Mar. 1831

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• Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.

  Daniel Webster

  Men, Race, Long

  Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple (2001). “The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster”, p.533, Beard Books

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• The man who barely abstains from violating either the person, or the estate, or the reputation of his neighbours, has surely very little positive merit. He fulfils, however, all the rules of what is peculiarly called justice, and does every thing which his equals can with propriety force him to do, or which they can punish him for not doing. We may often fulfil all the rules of justice by sitting still and doing nothing.

  Adam Smith

  Men, Sitting Still, Doe

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.92, VM eBooks

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• Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.

  William Watson

  Fall, Heaven, Done

  1602 A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions Concerning Religion and State. This was an influential reworking of Ferdinand I's motto. See Ferdinand I 320:1.

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• I feel anxious for the fate of our monarchy, or democracy, or whatever is to take place. I soon get lost in a labyrinth of perplexities; but, whatever occurs, may justice and righteousness be the stability of our times, and order arise out of confusion. Great difficulties may be surmounted by patience and perseverance.

  Abigail Adams

  Perseverance, Fate, Order

  Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.113, UPNE

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• Everything that would be said against the Eixample's heirs, from Le Corbusier's 'ville radieuse' to Oscar Niemeyer's Brasilia, was already said, with far less justice, about the Eixample itself. And all its critics concurred that the basic mistake was to have left the planning of a city in the hands of a socialist.

  Robert Hughes

  Mistake, Hands, Cities

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• As far as the earth is from the stars, and fire from the sea, so is the useful from the right. Power over men perishes completely if justice begins to be observed, and respect for individual rights overcomes strongholds.

  Lucan

  Wisdom, Stars, Men

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• Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

  Lord Hailsham

  Punishment, Criminals, Mercy

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• Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.

  Francis George

  Love Is, Way, Violence

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• Law is a process. If there is equality of process for everybody, then that's our definition of justice. Whether or not what is done is right or wrong, you follow the process. And so, the end result is just by definition within that alternative universe that is American law. Most people still operate within a moral universe where principles of good and bad and what is right and wrong in itself, and not just as a result of the process.

  Francis George

  Law, People, Done

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I need people to put a character in my hands and trust me to bring it to life and do it justice. So, I'm extremely grateful to have been given that opportunities and incredibly excited to be given more of them in the future.

  Matthew Kane

  Grateful, Character, Opportunity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice when it needs to be dealt.

  Duane Swierczynski

  Pain, Thinking, Self

  "Duane Swierczynski dreams up a violent new cocktail for The Black Hood". Interview with Derrick Sanskrit, www.avclub.com. October 9, 2015.

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• Twitter wanted to become a more egalitarian justice system, but instead it became a draconian one.

  Jon Ronson

  Wanted, Draconian, Justice System

  "Jon Ronson gets serious about Ashley Madison and Twitter-shaming". Interview with Katie Rife, www.avclub.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I feel like until you show every side, you're not doing the gender justice.

  Rashida Jones

  Sides, Gender, Shows

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. April 8, 2009.

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• No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.

  Melanie Phillips

  Veils, Behinds, Humans

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• We all have to announce our full solidarity with the struggle of those seeking freedom and justice in Syria, and translate this sympathy into a clear political vision that supports a peaceful transition to a democratic system of rule that reflects the demands of the Syrian people for freedom.

  Mohammed Morsi

  Sympathy, Struggle, People

  "Morsi criticises Syria at Tehran meeting". www.aljazeera.com. August 30, 2012.

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• Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.

  Van Jones

  Community, Suffering, Environmental

  Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.

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• Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately".

  N. T. Wright

  Mean, People, Way

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• ...unless the exchange be in love and kindly justice, it will but lead some to greed and others to hunger.

  Khalil Gibran

  Greed, Hunger

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• We shall never understand peace, justice and the living of life until we recognize that all people are human and that humans are the most precious things on earth.

  Wally Hickel

  People, Earth, Precious Things

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• ...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.

  Noam Chomsky

  Democracy, Cost, Steps

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• A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, School, Yearbook

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• It is an anomaly that we can split the atom, but we are nearly powerless to persuade each other to embrace justice.

  Gerry Spence

  Atoms, Anomalies, Splits

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• In America you get as much justice as you can afford.

  O. J. Simpson

  America

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