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  • One can contrive a religious motivation for virtually any choice of action, from commitment to the highest ideals to support for the most horrendous atrocities. In the sacred texts, we can find uplifting calls for peace, justice and mercy, along with the most genocidal passages in the literary canon. Conscience is our guide, whatever trappings we might choose to clothe it in.

    "Noam Chomsky: On Trump and the State of the Union". Interview with George Yancy, www.nytimes.com. July 5, 2017.
  • If thou wouldst seek justice, thyself must be just.

  • You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

    Country   Honesty   Gun  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1455, e-artnow
  • In other words, under Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI, the INS and the Department of Justice are so out of control that they have actually begun to enforce U.S. immigration laws.

  • I think that to be a good artist, you have to have ideas as well as manual skills. It's a blend of the two, hopefully, and there are a lot of people there that can do things well, but they might not be devoid of good ideas or maybe they're not especially interesting ideas, or maybe there's a good idea that a person is unable to execute in the manner that does justice to the idea.

    Source: www.aaa.si.edu
  • Justice is nothing more than the advantage of the stronger.

  • All government wars are unjust.

    Peace   War   Government  
    As quoted in an interview in "Reason" Magazine, February 1973.
  • I want to appoint Supreme Court justices who understand the way the world really works, who have real-life experience, who have not just been in a big law firm and maybe clerked for a judge and then gotten on the bench, but, you know, maybe they tried some more cases, they actually understand what people are up against.

    Real   Law   Justice  
    "Transcript of the Second Debate". www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.
  • Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

    Funny   Humor   Justice  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

    Men   Justice   May  
  • The gentleman holds justice to be of highest importance. If a gentleman has courage but neglects justice, he becomes insurgent. If an inferior man has courage but neglects justice, he becomes a thief.

    Courage   Men   Justice  
  • No one can remain insensitive to the inequalities that persist in the world ... the Brazilian people, particularly the humblest among you, can offer the world a valuable lesson in solidarity, a word that is too often forgotten or silenced because it is uncomfortable ... I would like to make an appeal to those in possession of greater resources, to public authorities and to all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity

    People   Justice   World  
  • Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • I want Canada to be the country that is the best in the world at combining economic growth, social justice and environmental sustainability.

  • Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

    Justice   Heaven   Deeds  
  • All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

    Beauty   Justice   Doe  
  • These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.

    Mean   People   Justice  
  • God is always the upholder of justice.

    God   Justice  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gandhigrams”
  • Power and those in control concede nothing ... without a demand. Hey never have and never will... Each and every one of us must keep demanding, must keep fighting, must keep thundering, must keep plowing, must keep on keeping things struggling, must speak out and speak up until justice is served because where there is no justice there is no peace.

  • It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

    Wise   Men   Justice  
  • We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society.

  • The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

    Country   White   People  
    James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.10, Courier Corporation
  • Justice delayed is justice denied.

    Law   Justice   Fairness  
    Speech in House of Commons, 16 Mar. 1868.
  • Justice is having and doing what is one's own.

    Justice  
  • You know, the courts may not be working any more, but as long as everyone is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.

    Long   Justice   Done  
  • It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington's cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.

    Justice   May   Homesick  
  • Justice from Love, and Love from Justice

    Love   Justice   And Love  
  • I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

    "My credo" by Albert Einstein, 1932.
  • When the great religious and philosophical conceptions were alive, thinking people did not extol humility and brotherly love, justice and humanity because it was realistic to maintain such principles and odd and dangerous to deviate from them, or because these maxims were more in harmony with their supposedly free tastes than others. They held to such ideas because they saw in them elements of truth, because they connected them with the idea of logos, whether in the form of God or of a transcendental mind, or even of nature as an eternal principle.

    "Eclipse of Reason" by Max Horkheimer, (p. 34), 1947.
  • Let it be said that when given a chance to complete the liberation of black Americans, on June 23, 2003 five justices consigned them to another generation - or, perhaps, a term of indefinite duration - of virtual enslavement to the past.

    Past   June   Justice  
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