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Accepting our pain is a way to say we treasure the sacred gift of life — run to your pain.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When you accept your value and have gratitude you are declaring your worthiness of further receivership.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
So do not waste my time. It is the most precious thing I have, time. It is the most precious thing any of us have.
— George R.R. Martin, Dreamsongs, Volume II
True Success adds value to others
— Todd Stocker, Leading from the Gut: 3 Power Principles of Effective Leaders
the value of a thing is not the thing but what is behind the thing
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.
— Ryan Lilly
The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.
— Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844/The Communist Manifesto
A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.
— John D. MacDonald, The Deep Blue Good-By
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
— Joseph Addison
Every one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand is like every other one-night-stand or man in a one-night-stand because the sex in a one-night-stand is without time and only time allows value.
— Kathy Acker, Eurydice in the Underworld
When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
What is it about your race that none of you can seem to properly weigh your own value? Every human seems to think more of herself than she should, or less of herself than is sensible!
— R.A. Salvatore, Starless Night
Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals.
— Albert Einstein
People have seen that I intend to sweep away everything we have been taught to consider - without question - as grace and beauty; but have overlooked my work to substitute a vaster beauty, touching all objects and beings, not excluding the most despised - and because of that, all the more exhilarating.... I would like people to look at my work as an enterprise for the rehabilitation of scorned values, and, in any case, make no mistake, a work of ardent celebration.... I am convinced that any table can be for each of us a landscape as inexhaustible as the whole Andes range... I am struck by the high value, for a man, of a simple permanent fact, like the miserable vista on which the window of his room opens daily, that comes, with the passing of time, to have an important role in his life. I often think that the highest destination at which a work of art can aim is to take on that function in someone's life.
— Jean Dubuffet
I have become very aware how under-represented are the stories of the underprivileged and undervalued. Our records are, in general, very male and if not always the material of the rich, certainly (for obvious reasons) the material of the literate.
— Sara Sheridan
I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face... Benefits are valuable according to their duration and extent... but the benign remedy Vaccination saves millions of lives every century, like the [gift] of the sun, universal and everla
— Benjamin Waterhouse
The value of a man is not in his skin, that we should touch him.
— Henry David Thoreau
People attempt to create association b/n you and your values. Oh, Mary- the girl who is caring; you mean the company with quality products?
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
You have to know the value of nothing before the value of something
— Armin Houman
Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist.
— David    Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
We may see the small Value God has for Riches, by the People he gives the
— Alexander Pope, The Prose Works of Alexander Pope
Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God’s help.
— Elizabeth George, Breaking the Worry Habit...Forever!: God's Plan for Lasting Peace of Mind
Where books are burned, they will, in the end, burn people, too.
— Heinrich Heine
I looked for it [heavy hydrogen, deuterium] because I thought it should exist. I didn't know it would have industrial applications or be the basic for the most powerful weapon ever known [the nuclear bomb] ... I thought maybe my discovery might have the practical value of, say, neon in neon s
— Harold Urey
An engineer can do for a dollar what any fool can do for two.
— Arthur Mellen Wellington
[Pure research] is worth every penny it costs.
— Harold Urey
Understanding the value of a security and whether it's trading above or below that value is the difference between investing and speculating.
— Coreen T. Sol, Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know
... it is shameful that there are so few women in science... In China there are many, many women in physics. There is a misconception in America that women scientists are all dowdy spinsters. This is the fault of men. In Chinese society, a woman is valued for what she is, and men encourage her to accomplishments yet she remains eternally feminine.
— Chien-Shiung Wu
When You Try To Control Everything, Remember, It's Just A Matter of Time You'll End Up Losing Everything....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.
— Willis R. Whitney
For every transaction, there is someone willing to buy and someone willing to sell at an agreed price, both believing that it's good value and that the counterparty is a little crazy.
— Coreen T. Sol, Practically Investing: Smart Investment Techniques Your Neighbour Doesn't Know
You May Understand The Value of Time Well During Pressure. It's Totally A Relative Matter....
— Muhammad Imran Hasan
Life's true value and meaning can only be known if we speak for the truth, not for our advocacy, but for the truth itself.
— Kasey Collin P. Dumdum
Dating is like a game. If someone feels like they have won us over too easily, they won’t see our value and will go elsewhere to find something they have to work a little bit harder for.
— Daniel Willey
The best things in life are beyond money
—  their price is agony and sweat and devotion ... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.
The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous.
— Brian Tracy, Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
We know the value of the things for which we suffer. In this modern day and age, things and people are not actually losing value; but it is the knowledge of the value that is lost. Because in this day and age, everyone wants something that is easy. The easier, the better. And therefore all value is lost, and lost from all things that exist for which one has not toiled or suffered to some degree. All things valuable are worth suffering for. And indeed, the same thing can be multiplied in value, when you add your blood to it through suffering for it.
— C. JoyBell C.
The value of your work is not in the dollar. It's in your word.
— Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
When you look through a window you gasp at the beautiful tree in the backyard or the magical sunrise coming over the horizon, No one looks at a window and is taken away by the complexity of the transparency of millions of atoms joined together to form, from our perception of a crystal clear yet structural opening to the exterior, the same is with life, if you spend your whole life being a medium to enable others then you will be nothing but a sheet of glass, overused, underappreciated, and fragile to opportunity
— Addison Killebrew
Air, an undervalued necessity, that earns your gratitude when you inhale it for the last time
— Shaun Neil King
To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.
— John Tyndall, Faraday as a Discoverer
You almost threw it back!' she repeated, and her voice filled with mock horror.'You foolish boy! Are you always so careless with items of value?''No,' he said, abruptly sober. 'I know what matters. And I never throw those things away. I hold on to them as long as I can.
— Sharon Shinn, Gateway
How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.
— Seth Godin, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
Behind each person is an utter mystery, supreme value. The more we recognize this the better we ALL get.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
The quality of health care continues to improve, and people are living longer, but these developments mean that we’re likely to eventually find ourselves in a situation in which we’re forced to make difficult choices about our parents, other loved ones, or even ourselves that ultimately boil down to calculations of worth and value.
— Sheena Iyengar, The Art of Choosing
Who you are as a person has a lot to do with who you are as meat
— Scott Carney, The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers
The childhood sexual abuse taught me that my value came from sex. In adulthood, I was driven to have sex since I always felt worthless. I felt important and desired until it was over and then I felt like garbage—the same way I did after the abuse. I desperately needed to feel valued again, which led to more sex. My sex addiction only stopped when I believed that I’m valuable apart from anything I do.
— Christina Enevoldsen
One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you are in a discipline, the less used to dialectical method you're likely to be. In fact, young children are very dialectical; they see everything in motion, in contradictions and transformations. We have to put an immense effort into training kids out of being good dialecticians. Marx wants to recover the intuitive power of the dialectical method and put it to work in understanding how everything is in process, everything is in motion. He doesn't simply talk about labor; he talks about the labor process. Capital is not a thing, but rather a process that exists only in motion. When circulation stops, value disappears and the whole system comes tumbling down.
— David Harvey, A Companion to Marx's Capital
When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?
— Marilyn Manson
This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of nature, not a social construction arising out of a particular mode of production. What Marx is interested in is a revolutionary transformation of society, and that means an overthrow of the capitalist value-form, the construction of an alternative value-structure, an alternative value-system that does not have the specific character of that achieved under capitalism. I cannot overemphasize this point, because the value theory in Marx is frequently interpreted as a universal norm with which we should comply. I have lost count of the number of times I have heard people complain that the problem with Marx is that he believes the only valid notion of value derives from labor inputs. It is not that at all; it is a historical social product. The problem, therefore, for socialist, communist, revolutionary, anarchist or whatever, is to find an alternative value-form that will work in terms of the social reproduction of society in a different image. By introducing the concept of fetishism, Marx shows how the naturalized value of classical political economy dictates a norm; we foreclose on revolutionary possibilities if we blindly follow that norm and replicate commodity fetishism. Our task is to question it.
— David Harvey, A Companion to Marx's Capital
True morals are a priceless thing that possesses the highest value and can never be bought or sold at any cost.
— Abigail Landsbrook
Too many decisions are made based on satisfying ego.
— Tim Fargo, Alphabet Success - Keeping it Simple
Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties leads to serious errors. It is for this reason that Marx registers...a vigorous indictment of the anarchist Proudhon... Proudhon in effect took the specifics of bourgeois legal and economic relations and treated them as universal and foundational for the development of an alternative, socially just economic system. From Marx's standpoint, this is no alternative at all since it merely re-inscribes bourgeois conceptions of value in a supposedly new form of society. This problem is still with us, not only because of the contemporary anarchist revival of interest in Proudhon's ideas but also because of the rise of a more broad-based liberal human rights politics as a supposed antidote to the social and political ills of contemporary capitalism. Marx's critique of Proudhon is directly applicable to this contemporary politics. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 is a foundational document for a bourgeois, market-based individualism and as such cannot provide a basis for a thoroughgoing critique of liberal or neoliberal capitalism. Whether it is politically useful to insist that the capitalist political order live up to its own foundational principles is one thing, but to imagine that this politics can lead to a radical displacement of a capitalist mode of production is, in Marx's view, a serious error.
— David Harvey, A Companion to Marx's Capital
Most of the humans are ineffective creatures. They are the source of pollutions
—  they waste resources and have no value for the well-being of continuation. They are the malfunctioned and Mal-manufactured products and had to be recycled.
Valuing other people's time starts with valuing your own.
— Robert J. Braathe
Don’t waste your time on people
—  let them waste on you.
As women we’re taught to believe that the more physically appealing we look, the more love we’ll receive in return. If we can just be the perfect cook, cleaner, lover, CEO hottie – well heck, if you don’t value yourself with all those attributes, then what’s it going to take to get your low blueberry muffin self-esteem recipe to rise every morning?
— Sadiqua Hamdan, Happy Am I. Holy Am I. Healthy Am I.
Many of the poets writing today are hung up on language and symbolism. If the poem does not have depth of meaning or fit a certain academic styles and standards, then it is not poetry. Poetry should relate to the man on the street who has to work for a living. Until poetry connects with the working man, it’s not going to sell; it’s not going to be of value.
— Harley King
People must be valued because of what they are rather than who they are.
— M.F. Moonzajer
In preparing the present volume, it has been the aim of the author to do full justice to the ample material at his command, and, where possible, to make the illustrations tell the main story to anatomists. The text of such a memoir may soon lose its interest, and belong to the past, but good figures are of permanent value. [Justifying elaborate illustrations in his monographs.]
— Othniel Charles Marsh
Buried treasure isn't worth much.
— S.R. Ford, Mimgardr
The value in my room is neither my Television nor my bank note. The value in my room is myself! Why? Because even if I lose everything I have, but still get me, I am coming back with full passion and desperation to climb the unclimbed hills again and again!
— Israelmore Ayivor
We do not measure the value of a person by their outward appearance, rank, or creed, rather by the sum of the agápe in their heart. Your value in the cosmos is greater than precious metals or jewels, humans have to potential to take us all into a period of great enlightenment, or to our ruin. The choice is yours.
— Guy T. Simpson Jr.
Sophie has a gift," she said. "She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special.There, she was only a parlor maid, who would likely have lost her position once her looks had faded. Now she is a valued member of our household, a gifted girl with much to contribute.
— Cassandra Clare, The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel
It’s not the win that matters so much as recognizing and respecting its value.
— Lorii Myers, No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book
The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was—after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
Sometime people are disempowered because they subconsciously identify themselves by their temporary circumstances instead of connecting with their innate value and truth.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
He had brought no possessions with him
—  he would take none away. There were none to have--everything of value was in the school computer or his own head and hands.
[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Japanese sense of beauty has long sharply differed from its Western counterpart: it has been dominated by a love of irregularity rather than symmetry, the impermanent rather than the eternal and the simple rather than the ornate. The reason owes nothing to climate or genetics, added Keene, but is the result of the actions of writers, painters and theorists, who had actively shaped the sense of beauty of their nation.Contrary to the Romantic belief that we each settle naturally on a fitting idea of beauty, it seems that our visual and emotional faculties in fact need constant external guidance to help them decide what they should take note of and appreciate. 'Culture' is the word we have assigned to the force that assists us in identifying which of our many sensations we should focus on and apportion value to.
— Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
[W]hat counts as ‘realistic’, what seems possible at any point in the social field, is defined by a series of political determinations. An ideological position can never be really successful until it is naturalized, and it cannot be naturalized while it is still thought of as a value rather than a fact. Accordingly, neoliberalism has sought to eliminate the very category of value in the ethical sense. Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that everything in society, including healthcare and education, should be run as a business. … [E]mancipatory politics must always destroy the appearance of a ‘natural order’, must reveal what is presented as necessary and inevitable to be a mere contingency, just as it must make what was previously deemed to be impossible seem attainable.
— Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
In India everything has a use and a value.
— Tahir Shah, Beyond The Devil's Teeth
In South Africa, they dig for diamonds. Tons of earth are moved to find a little pebble not as large as a little fingernail. The miners are looking for the diamonds, not the dirt. They are willing to lift all the dirt in order to find the jewels. In daily life, people forget this principle and become pessimists because there is more dirt than diamonds. When trouble comes, don’t be frightened by the negatives. Look for the positives and dig them out. They are so valuable it doesn't matter if you have to handle tons of dirt.
— Robert J. Ringer
Statements of fact are after all statements, which presumes a number of questionable judgements: that those statements are worth making, perhaps more worth making than certain others, that I am the sort of person entitled to make them and perhaps able to guarantee their truth, that you are the kind of person worth making them to, that something useful is accomplished by making them, and so on.
— Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing to say to each other at all. It is not just as though we have something called factual knowledge which may then be distorted by particular interests and judgements, although this is certainly possible; it is also that without particular interests we would have no knowledge at all, because we would not see the point of bothering to get to know anything. Interests are constitutive of our knowledge, not merely prejudices which imperil it. The claim that knowledge should be 'value-free' is itself a value-judgement.
— Terry Eagleton, Literary Theory: An Introduction
Be a solution provider and not a part of the problem to be solved
— Fela Durotoye
If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me.
— Anthony Liccione
Dr. Frankl discovered that even under the most inhumane of conditions, one can live a life of purpose and meaning. But for the majority of prisoners at Auschwitz, a meaningful life did not seem possible. Immersed in a world that no longer recognized the value of human life and human dignity, that robbed them of their will and made them objects to be exterminated, most inmates suffered a loss of their values. If a prisoner did not struggle against this spiritual destruction with a determined effort to save his self-respect, he lost his feeling of being an individual, a being with a mind, with inner freedom, and with personal value. His existence descended to the level of animal life, plunging him into a depression so deep that he became incapable of action. No entreaties, no blows, no threats would have any effect on his apathetic paralysis, and he soon died, underscoring the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky's observations: "Without a firm idea of himself and the purpose of his life, man cannot live, and would sooner destroy himself than remain on earth, even if he was surrounded with bread.
— John Chaffee, The Thinker's Way
Look at not its value[sic], for its value addition shows its worth.
— Sachin Kumar Puli
To waste valuable time on stressing over those who treat you unkindly, accomplish nothing of importance. Rather, that time should be spent working on most important things, that actually create something of value that is worth your time.
— Ellen J. Barrier
God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors, and blemishes. But He also sees our value. What did Jesus know that enabled Him to do what He did? Here’s part of the answer: He knew the value of people. He knew that each human being is a treasure. And because He did, people were not a source of stress, but a source of joy.
— Max Lucado, Lar: I Never Knew That Was in the Bible: Inspirational Thoughts for Each Day of the Year
Dreams can be of value even if you don’t have an opportunity to turn them into reality.
— Henning Mankell, The Troubled Man
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
— Heinrich Heine
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
You don't have to let his definition of success be yours
— Jody Hedlund, Unending Devotion
We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.
— Francis Chan, Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God
Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.
— Criss Jami, Killosophy
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality. Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
There's something I would like to understand. And I don't think anyone can explain it. . . There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something about it that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?
— Ayn Rand, Anthem
Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely.
— Edwin Lawrence
A True man only knows value of real person
— Raghava
Have the vision to create something wonderful, something that has true value forever.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
Even if, by some especially unfortunate fate or by the niggardly provision of stepmotherly nature, [the good will] should be wholly lacking in the power to accomplish its purpose; if with the greatest effort it should yet achieve nothing, and only the good will should remain (not, to be sure, as a mere wish but as the summoning of all the means in our power), yet would it, like a jewel, still shine by its own light as something which has its full value in itself.
— Immanuel Kant
Great men's value increases with age.
— Habeeb Akande
The quality of life that you have is determined solely by the effort you put into giving your life value, purpose and a reason.
— Steven Redhead, The Solution
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
— Ezra Pound
The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man's life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
— Benjamin Franklin
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.
— Voltaire, Zadig
Oh, come on!’ Percy complained. ‘I get a little nosebleed and I wake up the entire earth? That’s not fair!
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.
— David Sedaris
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.""...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.
— George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.
— G.K. Chesterton
Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand
—  it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. ... A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say, "This is not just." It will look at our alliance with the landed gentry of South America and say, "This is not just." The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.
— William Penn
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished.But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, 'whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection,' and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.
— John  Adams, The Portable John Adams
I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice.
— Albert Camus
But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
— Robert Jordan
Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.
— Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Justice? -- You get justice in the next world. In this one you have the law.
— William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own
Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
— Terry Goodkind, Faith of the Fallen
Sometimes, the only way to get justice is to take it for yourself.
— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
There's no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there's something that still swells my chest. There's magic in that.... It tells me that's the way things are supposed to be. 
— Brent Weeks, Beyond the Shadows
Please!’ That word didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice. ‘You’re already dead,’ Nico said. ‘You’re a ghost with no tongue, no memory. You won’t be sharing any secrets.
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.
— Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
There is no such thing as justice, all the best that we can hope for is revenge.
— Emilie Autumn
Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
— Samuel Johnson
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.
— Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States
I don't want tea, I want justice!
— Ally Carter, Uncommon Criminals
To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.
— Roseanne Barr
Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood.
— Anne Bishop
You are not wrong. You fought to protect your world. Isn't that good enough? After all, justice in this world is just a bunch of principles made by those with power to suit themselves. No one really thinks of others, you will lose everything if you cannot keep up. Only two kinds of people exist in this world—those who steal and those who are stolen from. So then, today, I just stole your future. That's all.
— Yana Toboso
Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land where justice is a game.
— Bob Dylan
Mr. Buckley, let me explain it this way. And I'll do so very carefully and slowly so that even you will understand it. If I was the sheriff, I would not have arrested him. If I was on the grand jury, I would not have indicted him. If I was the judge, I would not try him. If I was the D.A., I would not prosecute him. If I was on the trial jury, I would vote to give him a key to the city, a plaque to hang on his wall, and I would send him home to his family. And, Mr. Buckley, if my daughter is ever raped, I hope I have the guts to do what he did.
— John Grisham, A Time to Kill
Do not complain of life's unfairness. It is never fair - at best it is impartial.
— David Gemmell, Lion of Macedon
Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.
— John Quincy Adams
People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
— Isaac Asimov, The Robots of Dawn
In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.
— Euripides, The Children of Herakles
Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rather than justice for all, we are evolving into a system of justice for those who can afford it. We have banks that are not only too big to fail, but too big to be held accountable.
— Joseph E. Stiglitz
If karma doesn't catch up, God will surely pick up the slack.
— Anthony Liccione
The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?
— Pat Schroeder
Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.
— Thomas Paine
I couldn't quite understand how an ordinary man's good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man.
— Albert Camus, The Stranger
We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.
— R.C. Sproul, Choosing My Religion
Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics and Morality
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
— Victor Hugo
And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
— Reinhold Niebuhr, The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses
Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.
— Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Song of Songs I
What I'm saying to you this morning is that Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the Kingdom of Brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of Communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
[Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.
— Martin Luther King Jr., Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
You take what you want at the end of a gun, you murder and rape and steal, and you call it bringing civilization. And what is civilization, to you, but us being properly grateful to be murdered and raped and stolen from? You said you knew justice when you heard it. Well, what is your justice but you allowed to treat us as you like, and us condemned for even attempting to defend ourselves?
— Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be
—  of right as against wrong
Who judges the judge who judges wrong?
— Gail Carson Levine, Fairest
Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie to me. There is no justice.
— Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
'In our inmost and secret heart, which you ask us to bare to you, we wish to banish them as we were banished, to a cold and lonely house, in the charge of a man who hated us. And we wish them trapped there as we were trapped.' 'You consider that unjust, Serenity?' 'We consider it cruel,' Maia said. 'And we do not think that cruelty is ever just.' 
— Katherine Addison, The Goblin Emperor
The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
— John Marshall
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
— Thomas Jefferson
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
— Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
The trial of Jesus of Nazareth, the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc, any one of the witchcraft trials in Salem during 1691, the Moscow trials of 1937 during which Stalin destroyed all of the founders of the 1924 Soviet REvolution, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial of 1920 through 1927- there are many trials such as these in which the victim was already condemned to death before the trial took place, and it took place only to cover up the real meaning: the accused was to be put to death. These are trials in which the judge, the counsel, the jury, and the witnesses are the criminals, not the accused. For any believer in capital punishment, the fear of an honest mistake on the part of all concerned is cited as the main argument against the final terrible decision to carry out the death sentence. There is the frightful possibility in all such trials as these that the judgement has already been pronounced and the trial is just a mask for murder.
— Katherine Anne Porter, The Never-Ending Wrong
There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.
— Marilyn French, The Women's Room
Do not shout at me, Mr. Quill," said John [Adams]. "Justice may be blind, but she is not deaf.
— Orson Scott Card, Heartfire
It's hard luck always having to be a judge.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight
Every society has the criminals that it deserves.
— H. Havelock Ellis
In the unceasing ebb and flow of justice and oppression we must all dig channels as best we may, that at the propitious moment somewhat of the swelling tide may be conducted to the barren places of life.
— Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House
There are only two ways that God’s justice can be satisfied with respect to your sin. Either you satisfy it or Christ satisfies it. You can satisfy it by being banished from God’s presence forever. Or you can accept the satisfaction that Jesus Christ has made.
— R.C. Sproul, Choosing My Religion
I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that of justice. Because it might mean that only justice would be meted out to me.
— Agatha Christie, Murder at the Vicarage
I see no justice in that plan.""Who said," lashed out Isaac Penn, "that you, a man, can always perceive justice? Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long enough to recognize the decisive thunder of its occurrence, that it can be manifest within a generation, within ten generations, within the entire span of human existence? What you are talking about is common sense, not justice. Justice is higher and not as easy to understand -- until it presents itself in unmistakable splendor. The design of which I speak is far above our understanding. But we can sometimes feel its presence."No choreographer, no architect, engineer, or painter could plan more thoroughly and subtly. Every action and every scene has its purpose. And the less power one has, the closer he is to the great waves that sweep through all things, patiently preparing them for the approach of a future signified not by simple human equity (a child could think of that), but by luminous and surprising connections that we have not imagined, by illustrations terrifying and benevolent -- a golden age that will show not what we wish, but some bare awkward truth upon which rests everything that ever was and everything that ever will be. There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
To be something abnormal meant that you were to serve the normal. And if you refused, they hated you... and often the normal hated you even when you did serve them.
— Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death
Granny always said finding justice was as tough as putting socks on a rooster.
— Jessica Maria Tuccelli, Glow
Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.
— Allan Pinkerton
The millions of vacationers who came here every year before Katrina were mostly unaware of this poverty. French Quarter tourists were rarely exposed to the reality beneath the Disneyland Gomorrah that is projected as 'N'Awlins,' a phrasing I have never heard a local use and a place, as far as I can tell, that I have never encountered despite my years in the city. The seemingly average, white, middle-class Americans whooped it up on Bourbon Street without any thought of the third-world lives of so many of the city's citizens that existed under their noses. The husband and wife, clad in khaki shorts, feather boa, and Mardi Gras beads well out of season, beheld a child tap-dancing on the street for money and clapped along to his beat without considering the obvious fact that this was an early school-day afternoon and that the child should be learning to read, not dancing for money. Somehow they did not see their own child beneath the dancer's black visage. Nor, perhaps, did they see the crumbling buildings where the city's poor live as they traveled by cab from the French Quarter to Commander's Palace. They were on vacation and this was not their problem. 
— Billy Sothern, Down in New Orleans: Reflections from a Drowned City
The rape of justice anywhere ,violates justice everywhere
— Colin Tegerdine, You Can't Google Life
What do I want now? I want to be treated with the respect I deserve in the current VA system and not be retraumatized. I want the men who did this to me to be punished and if that isn't possible, I want reassurance what happened to me will never ever happen to another woman in the Armed services. I want some restitution of the damage I have.
— Diane Chamberlain, Conduct Unbecoming: Rape, Torture, and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from Military Commanders
Justice has to be cold. Deal with it
—  it's just ice.
The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The justice I have received, I shall give back.
— Patricia Highsmith, The Glass Cell
In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.
— Thomas Jefferson
True law, the code of justice, the essence of our sensations of right and wrong, is the conscience of society. It has taken thousands of years to develop, and it is the greatest, the most distinguishing quality which has developed with mankind ... If we can touch God at all, where do we touch him save in the conscience? And what is the conscience of any man save his little fragment of the conscience of all men in all time?
— Walter Van Tilburg Clark, The Ox-Bow Incident
What is more, sir," his lordship went on, "I believe I have a good idea of what you mean by 'professionalism.' It appears to mean getting one's way by cheating and manipulating. It appears to mean serving the dictates of greed and advantage rather than those of goodness and the desire to see justice prevail in the world. If that is the 'professionalism' you refer to, sir, I don't care much for it and have no wish to acquire it.
— Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
Wendy is still dead. I hadn't understood before: it really doesn't bring them back. Somehow, you think, despite what you know, it will be a trade. Find the person who did the wrong thing and they will suffer instead of the one who was killed. Instead, that person just suffers too.
— Mariah Fredericks, The Girl in the Park
Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the head" attitude, which, I confess, feels great sometimes, but come on. Why do we paint everyone with the same brush? Why does it seem more & more we want people ruined rather than rehabilitated?
— Whoopi Goldberg
Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.
— Thomas Jefferson
Well, did he do it?"She always asked the irrelevant question. It didn't matter in terms of the strategy of the case whether the defendant "did it" or not. What mattered was the evidence against him -- the proof -- and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt.
— Michael Connelly, The Lincoln Lawyer
The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.
— John Marshall
It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
— Oscar Arias
Apathy is not compatible with love
— Simon Tam
The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's justice that clinches the bargain.
— Walter de la Mare, The Return
I once fed a dog-fight operator to the dogs he had abused for so long, and do you want to know something? It felt so good. It was justice, girl. The fucking law never gave a shit about a victim, but justice is all heart.
— Cedric Nye, Jango's Anthem
These tales, without exception, express the truth that justice triumphs in the end. They all contain the idea that it is worth while to fight for the truth, in any situation.In this fight man is assisted by more powerful beings than ordinary mortals. And the triumph of justice is the only sense and consolation in this world. Indeed, the world itself started out with this hope. The human race received it long, long ago as a cradle-song.
— Gyula Illyés, Once Upon a Time: Forty Hungarian Folk-Tales
We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early going, we love to punish and we need to find a villian.
— Whoopi Goldberg, Is It Just Me?: Or is it nuts out there?
Wilson had been killed by everybody. It was this that made his death special, the children had been told. It was justice, it was all the people showing how much they hated this crime. Killing was justice when everybody joined in.
— Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger