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Dumbfounded, I stood before the court, trying to figure out if there was a state of being between “guilty” and “innocent.” Why were those my only alternatives? I thought. Why couldn’t I be “neither” or “both”? After a long pause, I finally faced the bench and said, “Your Honor, I plead human.
— Paul Beatty, The Sellout
I wanted to be JUSTICE, LOVE, and the WRATH OF GOD all in one.
— Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
To my Black brothers and sisters, choose faith. As difficult as it is, choose faith—the kind of faith that we know without works is dead. The faith that raises awareness, educates the community, advocates, cares for the widows and feeds the orphans. Choose the faith that is compelled to action, but not controlled my anger.
— Andrena Sawyer
Like honey is the sleep of the just.
— Anne Carson
justice...is not inherent in the universe and what man has put there he uses when he uses it at all strictly for his own purposes the world is so sad that the only way to live with it is to laugh at it
— Don Marquis, Archyology : The Long Lost Tales of Archy and Mehitabel
God's judgment is not like man's judgment. It is not a suspension of His Love but an extension of His Love. His justice is always righteous, so His judgment is always Love.
— Criss Jami
It’s not right because it just isn’t. You can’t go round making up evidence just because you’re convinced someone is guilty. You can’t be judge and jury
—  that’s not your job. (Liz)
Righteous indignation calls sin what it is. Bigotry is sin. Racism is sin. Oppression is sin. Control by fear is sin. Violence is sin. The quicker we can all admit that, the quicker the healing will begin.
— Andrena Sawyer
Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.
— Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code
I am against justice … whenever it is carried out by a mob.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way if justice.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl
Laws are confusing documents. They get in the way of justice.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, The Windup Girl
I'm appalled with description of "Sex Criminal" as recreation. Just responded to "20 minutes of action" by father of Stanford rapist. Lots of women at Goodreads, what are you thinking?
— Bawb Cawx
Never let the law interfere with justice.
— James Hickey, Charity's Stone
When kings the sword of justice first lay down,They are no kings, though they possess the crown.Titles are shadows, crowns are empty things,The good of subjects is the end of kings.
— Daniel Defoe, The True-Born Englishman: A Satyr
Never wanna leave my Justice, my home.So I bring her with me, my baby Lonesome.Don't matter, Justice is always there,Always right there, no matter where I go.My baby Lonesome,Makin' it so I'm never missin' home.
— Kristen Ashley, Bounty
In not a single one of these little campaigns was I victorious. In other words, in each case, I personally failed, but I have lived to see the thesis upon which I was operating vindicated. And what I very often say is that I’ve lived to see my lost causes found.
— Pauli Murray
Let there be no love poems writtenUntil love can exist freely andCleanly.
— Amiri Baraka
How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?''I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown
We all want to live in a world where we can make a difference... That's why Spider-Man fights the good fight. Or Captain Marvel. Or me. Or... There are a lot of us. And we don't all wear masks these days. Iron Man went public. So did Captain America. Others. Probably because it's harder to keep secrets in an internet surveillance age. But I think some of it, too, is that the ethical paradox can wear you down. No one on the white-hat side has ever hidden his or her identity with less than noble intent: to make the fight about something bigger than us. To represent a greater justice, where the focus can be on right and wrong... and not on whether the bad guys will exact reprisal on those close to us. And sometimes you have to lie... because you can justify a lie if lives are riding on it. Even as you fight for, as the saying goes, truth and justice... even if you're a lawyer who has sworn to live by the truth... you willingly bear false witness.
— Mark Waid, Daredevil, Volume 7
If Petey were keeping one of her lists of the things she hated, she would have to add: the fact that there was no justice.
— Laura Ruby, Bone Gap
Look around you, Ethan." I said. "The end of the world. Is this the reward you want? Do you really want everything destroyed - the good with the bad? Everything?" "There is no throne to Nemesis, " Ethan muttered. "No throne to my mother." "You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys." Ethan looked at the sizzling throne of Hephaestus. Grover's music kept playing, and Ethan swayed to it, as if the song was filling him with nostalgia - a wish to see a beautiful day, to be anywhere but here. His good eye blinked. Then he charged...but not at me. While Kronos was still on his knees, Ethan brought his sword down on the Titan lord's neck. It should have killed him instantly, but the blade shattered. Ethan fell back, grasping his stomach. A shard of his own blade had ricocheted and pierced his armor. Kronos rose unsteadily, towering over his servant. "Treason," he snarled. Grover's music kept playing, and grass grew around Ethan's body. Ethan stared at me, his face tight with pain. "Deserve better, " he gasped. "If they just...had thrones-" Kronos stomped his foot, and the floor ruptured around Ethan Nakamura. The son of Nemesis fell through a fissure that went straight through the heart of the mountain - straight into open air. "So much for him." Kronos picked up his sword. "And now for the rest of you.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?''I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is your own guilt clamoring in your ears.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Crimson Crown
As a society, we adhere to the belief in a fair trial for a person accused of a serious crime, but some of us struggle when it comes to the business of providing a competent lawyer to guarantee said fair trial. Lawyers like me live with the question “But how do you represent such scum?”I offer a quick “Someone has to” as I walk away.Do we really want fair trials? No, we do not. We want justice, and quickly. And justice is whatever we deem it to be on a case-by-case basis.It’s just as well that we don’t believe in fair trials because we damned sure don’t have them. The presumption of innocence is now the presumption of guilt. The burden of proof is a travesty because the proof is often lies. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt means if he probably did it, then let’s get him off the streets.
— John Grisham, Rogue Lawyer
Justice is not an easy battle to win; some get to the fact, some get fucked.
— M.F. Moonzajer, The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency
I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low--or no--expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.
— Jacqueline Novogratz, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World
Be fair, just and kind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In contexts of colonial oppression, intellectuals, especially those who advocate and work for justice, cannot be just-or mere- intellectuals, in the abstract sense; they cannot but be immersed in some form or another of activism, to learn from fellow activists through real-life experiences, to widen the horizons of their sources of inspiration, and to organically engage in effective, collective emancipatory processes, without the self-indulgence, complacency, or ivory-towerness that might otherwise blur their moral vision. In short, to be just intellectuals, committed to justice as the most ethical and durable foundation of peace.
— Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Justice is like a great home cooked meal; it may not come at the ideal time, but when it does it is served and delicious.
— Robert J. Braathe
In response to this fatal alliance of savage capitalism in the West with Israeli racism, exclusion and colonial subjugation, the global movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel presents not only a progressive, anti racist [3], sophisticated, sustainable, moral and effective form of civil non-violent resistance, but also a real chance of becoming the political catalyst and moral anchor for a strengthened, reinvigorated international social movement capable of reaffirming the rights of all humans to freedom, equality and dignity and the right of nations to self determination.
— Omar Barghouti, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights
Can I by justice or by crooked ways of deceit ascend a loftier tower which may he a fortress to me all my days? For what men say is that, if I am really just and am not also thought just profit there is none, but the pain and loss on the other hand are unmistakable. But if, though unjust, I acquire the reputation of justice, a heavenly life is promised to me. Since then, as philosophers prove, appearance tyrannizes over truth and is lord of happiness, to appearance I must devote myself.
— Plato
Law is for everyone, justice is for few.
— Sercan Leylek
Law and justice are not the same.
— John Connolly, A Time of Torment
Stand up for Truth even it means standing alone.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Stand up for what is fair against the unfair.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
You are not for the left or right team, but for what is right against the wrong.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Nothing amuses people more than a cocky guy who starts losing.
— Criss Jami
Look around you, Ethan." I said. "The end of the world. Is this the reward you want? Do you really want everything destroyed - the good with the bad? Everything?" "There is no throne to Nemesis, " Ethan muttered. "No throne to my mother." "You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys." Ethan looked at the sizzling throne of Hephaestus. Grover's music kept playing, and Ethan swayed to it, as if the song was filling him with nostalgia - a wish to see a beautiful day, to be anywhere but here. His good eye blinked. Hen he charged...but not at me. While Kronos was still on his knees, Ethan brought his sword down on the Titan lord's neck. It should have killed him instantly, but the blade shattered. Ethan fell back, grasping his stomach. A shard of his own blade had ricocheted and pierced his armor. Kronos rose unsteadily, towering over his servant. "Treason," he snarled. Grover's music kept playing, and grass grew around Ethan's body. Ethan stared at me, his face tight with pain. "Deserve better, " he gasped. "If they just...had thrones-" Kronos stomped his foot, and the floor ruptured around Ethan Nakamura. The son of Nemesis fell through a fissure that went straight through the heart of the mountain - straight into open air. "So much for him." Kronos picked up his sword. "And now for the rest of you.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time. Not only that, but maybe the basic message of original sin isn't "feel guilty all the time." Maybe it is more along these lines: "We all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time.
— Paul Kalanithi
The principle cannot be denied: the fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness.
— Miroslav Volf
If changing judges changes law, then it is not clear what law is.
— Judge Richard A. Posner
A justice-thirsty country needs nothing but justice, neither bread nor anything else, only justice!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I see myself as an instrument of justice, not a dispenser of it."-Detective Thanet.
— Dorothy Simpson, Puppet For A Corpse
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.
— Benjamin Franklin
Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.
— Bryan Stevenson
One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation.
— Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran
His sense of “justice” had been hard tempered by his sense of law enforcement
—  a perfect way to reverse the presumption of innocence.
It might not seem self-evident that impunity for white violence against blacks would engender black-on-black murder. But when people are stripped of legal protection and placed in desperate straits, they are more, not less, likely to turn on each other. Lawless settings are terrifying; if people can do whatever they want to each other, there are always enough bullies to make it ugly. Americans are nostalgic for the village setting and hold dear the notion of community, so the idea that the oppressed do not band together in solidarity is counter to our myths. But community spawns communal justice; the village gives rise to the feud.
— Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
America is not a pile of goods, more luxury, more comforts, a better telephone system, a greater number of cars. America is a dream of greater justice and opportunity for the average man and, if we can not obtain it, all our otherachievements amount to nothing.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy. It is impossible not to notice how little the proponents of the ideal of competition have to say about honesty, which is the fundamental economic virtue, and how very little they have to say about community, compassion, and mutual help.
— Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
Are you the sum total of your worst acts?
— Bryan Stevenson
The gods are just, and of our pleasant vicesMake instruments to plague us.
— William Shakespeare
Don’t seem right, do it?” said Topper. “It ain’t right,” replied Fin. “Not at all.” Jack guzzled his wine and wiped at his beard. “Mayhap it’s right and we can’t see it...” Topper scratched his bald head and hummed in thought. “Still don’t seem right,” he proclaimed when he’d hummed enough. Jack dropped his flagon to the deck and it rolled away clattering. “Yeah, well, what seems ain’t always what is.
— A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green
Deserve better...if only...they just had...thrones...
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them
— Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Revised regulations will never suppress federal workplace retaliation; nor will it cure the inaction of an EEOC official when justice demands fair, prompt and judicious decision-making.
— Tanya Ward Jordan
To be just, a law has to be flexible.
— Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road
Because what you and others like you have forgotten or never known is that the responsibility of the strong is to nurture and protect the weak, not take advantage.
— D.R. Ranshaw, Gryphon's Heir
He is the God of all, and His concern is for all.
— John Willis Zumwalt, Passion for the Heart of God
One reason current discussions of justice are so impoverished is that our heterogeneous society does not have many shared texts. Shakespeare's plays are among the few secular texts that remain common enough and complex enough to sustain these conversation. His answers to our dilemmas may not "bear on all points." Yet they teach us not to underestimate the action of the flower.
— Kenji Yoshino, A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice
Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.
— Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
Sec. 10. Besides the crime which consists in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression: in which case he who hath received any damage, has, besides the right of punishment common to him with other men, a particular right to seek reparation from him that has done it: and any other person, who finds it just, may also join with him that is injured, and assist him in recovering from the offender so much as may make satisfaction for the harm he has suffered.
— John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone they want. And we all ugly people will wait holding our dicks in our hands.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world.But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree,So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong without the hidden will of you all.Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self.You are the way and the wayfarers.And when one of you falls down he falls for those behind him, a caution against the stumbling stone.Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him, who though faster and surer of foot, yet removed not the stumbling stone.
— Kahlil Gibran
A judge who doesn't feel empathy for the accused, becomes executioner
— Válgame, Zori 2ª Parte
One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed
— H.W. Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900
A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed compulsively, it is because he was extremely frightened. Above all, a justice which might examine itself, & recognize that all of us, a living quagmire, founded in darkness, & for this reason not a man's evil should be cosigned to another man's evil: so that the latter may not shoot to kill without restraint or censure. A justice which will not forget that we are all dangerous, & that at the hour when the executant of justice kills, he is no longer protecting us or seeking to eliminate a criminal; he is committing his own crime, which he has been harboring for a considerable time. At the hour of killing a criminal- at that very moment, an innocent man is being put to death. No, no, I am not asking for the sublime, nor for the things which gradually become the words which help me to sleep peacefully. Those of us who take refuge in the abstract are a mixture of forgiveness & vague charity. What I want is something much harsher & much more difficult: I want the terrestrial.
— Clarice Lispector, The Foreign Legion
No, I would not say that assault with a baseball bat constitutes "justice being done.
— Garth Ennis
I’ll take what’s behind door number three did not work too well in the modern justice system, which was all system and no justice.
— Kenneth Eade, Absolute Intolerance
I do not support vengeance. I support justice. They are not one in the same.
— Mark Andrew Poe
Those who think only in straight lines cannot see around a curve.
— Romina Russell, Zodiac
The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as citizens of the earth.
— Vandana Shiva, Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Whenever you deny the hand of Justice, Violence almost always steps in.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
For there to be harmony and peace, everything must be balanced. And for there to be balance, there must be equality. Where there is equality, there will be justice. And where justice is honored and preserved, there will always be truth.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.
— Sophocles, Antigone
It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'.
— Joyce Rachelle
Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.
— Orrin Woodward
He presented justice as a psychological relief.
— Jill Leovy
If it is irrational and hypocritical to hold a minor to the same standard of behaviour control as a mature adult, it is equally unjust to hold a traumatised and neurologically impaired adult to the same standard as one not so afflicted
— Marin Teicher
He presented justice as a psychological relief...
— Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal.
— Joyce Rachelle
He tells people that they can no more expect justice in the afterlife than in the mortal plane, but he doesn't do this to dissuade them from worshipping God; on the contrary, he encourages them to do so. What he insists on is that they not love God under a misapprehension, that if they wish to love God, they be prepared to do so no matter His intentions. God is not just, God is not kind, God is not merciful, and understanding that is essential to true devotion.
— Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others
Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was truly created equal, and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another, or that one nation is less deserving than another?
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right. If we don’t fight lawlessness, it prevails. If we don’t establish the truth in our nations, truth becomes foreign in the country. God says there is no man when there is nobody who stands for the truth.
— Sunday Adelaja
Water and ice made of the same thing. He thought most people were made of the same thing, too...If he had sort all the humanity by its material essence, he thought he would probably end up with a single gigantic pile. But here was the interesting thing. Ice was distinct from - and in his view, better than - what it was made of.He wanted to be better than what he was made of. In Mumbai's dirty water, he wanted to be ice. He wanted to have ideals. For self-interested reasons, one of the ideals he most wanted to have was a belief in the possibility of justice.
— Katherine Boo
They came to realize that, even if evil and injustice seemed to win at some point, God would still be the ultimate victor. In the end good and justice would prevail forever.
— Therese May, When Justice Prevails
...I am the first to say that ours is a complex and difficult country and some of our complexities are indeed grotesque. We who are Negro Americans can offer that last remark with unwavering insistence. It is, on the other hand, also a great nation with certain beautiful and indestructible traditions and potentials which can be seized by all of who possess imagination and love of man. There is, as a certain play suggests, a great deal to be fought in America - but, at the same time, there is so much which begs to be but re-affirmed and cherished with sweet defiance.
— Lorraine Hansberry, To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
Justice suffers when men refuse to stand firm for what is right.
— Sunday Adelaja
I therefore submit to you that what qualifies a person to be called a man according to God, is the ability of the individual to live by the right standard and values that heaven values. Standards like, justice, judgement, truth and equity.
— Sunday Adelaja
Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting
— Sunday Adelaja
If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth
— Sunday Adelaja
Fair has nothing to do with it. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.
— Kenneth Eade, Killer.com
Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you take a decision, make plans, strategise, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world
— Sunday Adelaja
Did you see any of those who are downtrodden, would that justice help them? Anyone oppressed and suppressed around you take a decision, make plans, strategize, to begin to proclaim and establish justice in your world.
— Sunday Adelaja
He knew that justice was rarely dispensed within the four walls of the courtroom.
— Kenneth Eade, Killer.com
Fair is irrelevant. This is the law – it has nothing to do with justice.
— Kenneth Eade, Killer.com
As far as I'm concerned, the gator that ate T.C. deserves a medal from Crime Stoppers.
— Carl Hiaasen
Some of the toughest ayaat in the Quran have Allah's name "ar-Rahman" in them to make it clear that just because Allah is the Most Merciful, it doesn't mean He's not going to carry out justice.
— Nouman Ali Khan
It takes a common thug to commit injustice, but it takes an exceptional thug to call it "social justice".
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski, The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
It doesn't matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
As a rule, if a crime is committed by one group against another ethnic or religious group, it is nearly impossible for the perpetrator to punish itself.
— Taner Akçam, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
I prefer my justice to be blind.
— Amy A. Bartol, Under Different Stars
I have not encouraged talk about man’s holy privacy, although I do respect and defend man’s right to have it.
— Mie Hansson, Where Pain Thrives
He was a serial dater, and she was a serial killer. Justice brought them together.
— Natalya Vorobyova
You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise when there is equal power to compel: in terms of practicality the dominant exact what they can and the weak concede what they must. (Said by Athenian envoy to the Melians)
— Thucydides
No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience.
— Harper Lee
Take a child away from a mother and she will bring the world to its knees for justice to be served.
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
There is no escape from justice, nothing can be unearned and unpaid for in the universe, neither in matter nor in spirit—and if the guilty do not pay, then the innocent have to pay it.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer.
— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Monitor, transparently, and enforce the separation of Democracy powers: Legislative; Executive; Judicial
— Miguel Reynolds Brandao, The Sustainable Organisation - a paradigm for a fairer society: Think about sustainability in an age of technological progress and rising inequality
No actions by gangs or individuals can justify the deaths of eight hundred thousand people.
— Taner Akçam, A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time.
— Socrates, Apology
The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.
— Heraclitus
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past. No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
If logic and reason, the hard, cold products of the mind, can be relied upon to deliver justice or produce the truth, how is it that these brain-heavy judges rarely agree? Five-to-four decisions are the rule, not the exception. Nearly half of the court must be unjust and wrong nearly half of the time. Each decision, whether the majority or minority, exudes logic and reason like the obfuscating ink from a jellyfish, and in language as opaque. The minority could have as easily become the decision of the court. At once we realize that logic, no matter how pretty and neat, that reason, no matter how seemingly profound and deep, does not necessarily produce truth, much less justice. Logic and reason often become but tools used by those in power to deliver their load of injustice to the people. And ultimate truth, if, indeed, it exists, is rarely recognizable in the endless rows of long words that crowd page after page of most judicial regurgitations.
— Gerry Spence, How to Argue & Win Every Time: At Home, At Work, In Court, Everywhere, Everyday
Fear follows crime and is its punishment.
— Voltaire
There can be no justice so long as law is absolute. Even life itself is an excercise in exceptions.”“When has justice ever been as simple as a rule-book?” - Riker
— The Next Generation (season 1 epis. 7: Justice)
Justice is truth in action.~ BENJAMIN DISRAELI, speech, Feb. 11, 1851
— Benjamin Disraeli
Above all things, never think that you're not visible to the naked eye or Justice. ~ Biniam Yibaleh
— Biniam Yibaleh
The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions -- knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions, and ideas -- become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use."~Louis D. Brandeis
— Louis D. Brandeis
At the heart of the American paradigm is the perception that law and its agents . . . police officers, correctional officers, attorneys and judges . . . are color-blind and thus justice is impartial, objective and seeks la verdad (the truth). But, la realidad (reality) differs.
— Martin Guevara Urbina, Latino Police Officers in the United States: An Examination of Emerging Trends and Issues
Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Justice and judgement lie often a world apart."~ Emmeline Pankhurst
— Emmeline Pankhurst, My Own Story
We’re not crazy. We’re just not in the dark anymore. And my goodness, we can see you so clearly now.
— Saeed Jones
Perhaps more than never, in a highly globalized world, we must recognize that multiculturalism is not simply understanding ethnic/racial histories or the mere appreciation of cultural “difference,” but accepting that multiculturalism spreads across the very inner core of America’s institutions, and ingrained in the very essence of life, for multicultural perspectives, ideas, and ideologies empower us to elevate the multicultural discourse to a higher level of social transformation—ultimately, universal equality, justice, respect, and human dignity for all, in all facets of human existence.
— Martin Guevara Urbina, Twenty-first Century Dynamics of Multiculturalism: Beyond Post-racial America
I don't see any reason to let law interfere with justice around here. We never did before.
— Sid Fleischman, By the Great Horn Spoon!
And what sort of choice is fall in love with me, or you’re a pig?”“Justice.” Lizzie twirled a lock of hair around her little finger.
— Ursley Kempe, Witches Monstrous
Their voices meld into a cloudy rumble of their own, and I ponder Mira's and Aidan's secrets and imagine the injustice that threads through other lives, injustice that has no face because it is hidden away in a dark, shameful place, hidden for years in hopes of making it untrue.
— Mary E. Pearson
As Donilon [President Obama's security advisor] would tell me, Obama said: "Here's the deal. I want this hunt for Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri to come to the front of the line. I worry that the trail has gone cold. This has to be our top priority and it needs leadership in the tops of your organizations. You need to ensure that we have expended every effort to take down the top leadership of al Qaeda, especially these two individuals. And I want regular reports on this *to me* and I want them starting in thirty days.Donilon followed up and drove and drove the point home with a memo, which the president signed. He sent it to each of those present. It read: 'In order to ensure that we have extended every effort - directly provide to me a detailed operational plan for locating and bringing to justice Osama bin Laden.
— Mark Bowden
The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice
— Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus
Injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere. Anyone who lives inside the US can never be considered an outsider anywhere in the country
— Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail
In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.
— Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays
My life is ungrateful to me. I do so much for it to be comfortable, and still, it repays me by throwing tantrums left and right. As soon as I think it's time for a present due to all my efforts, I get repaid with ingratitude. If this is how my life treats me, then maybe it's time I mistreat it, as well.
— Lange Weile, Pressure
I think that for those who have suffered unjustly, justice alone is not enough. They want the guilty to suffer unjustly too. Only this will they understand as justice.
— Tadeusz Borowski, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen
Cries for justice are often the bitter laments of the vengeful.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed. No, he said... there’s just me.
— Terry Pratchett, Mort
God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.
— Dee Henderson, Danger in the Shadows
Hey you —All our fevered history won't instill insight,won't turn a body conscious,won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothingto solve even as each moment is an answer.
— Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
Karma and manifestation work 24/7 to balance the scales. Do justice, in due time.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
I shall yield a rifle of fury, loaded with the justice of time and the raging storm of my soul!
— Quoleena Sbrocca, The Crossing Hour
Justice it means but it's everybody eating everyone else. That's what life is after all.
— James Joyce, Ulysses
In a just cause the weak will beat the strong!
— Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
An unavoidable war is called justice. When brutality is the only option left it is holy
— Machiavelli, Niccolo
I was once, I am, and I will always be my children’s father. As to those individuals who have tried so desperately to destroy the fact, I offer forgiveness and seekreconciliation. As to the institutions that have supported the effort to destroy the fact, I pray that: Lady Justice will seek the truth rather than excuse it; and that she will extol the American family rather than destroy it.
— H. Kirk Rainer, A Once and Always Father
When the law is wrong it's because it's unnatural, but in this case it is natural and a river will drown you if you buck it now
— Arthur Miller
Oh, there were many here who were justly shot by unjust men.
— Arthur Miller
A centre of racism is a point of pain, a point of no justice and a house of oppression.
— Auliq Ice
Justice can only be delivered by someone who doesn't care to about how much he's paid, or where he is in the chain of command. Someone who's ego won't be inflated by grandeur or power. Someone who won't be influenced by this guy's being the CEO of this or his being the Mayor of that. And let's face it: that someone couldn't be human.
— Eliza Victoria, Project 17
There is a falling from the skyThe sacred hoop is brokenBut different hands with different voiceHear the ancient songsAnd soonAll men will seeThat truth and justiceMustPrevail.
— Laurence Overmire, Honor and Remembrance
A call to embrace democracy is the worst insult to a society that is still alien to civilisation. It is like being asked to dance to the tune of mob justice.
— Newton Gatambia
Unconditional love is something people achieve once they’ve given themselves over completely to someone. Once they’ve decided that no matter what the other person does, they will always love them.
— Sarah Noffke, Revived
It may not be pretty, but sometimes justice has to be hard to keep the rest of us straight and safe.
— Intisar Khanani, Thorn
The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
— Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
A hundred words put together to formulate an excuse will never resolve a conflict, political justifications are silly lies.
— Auliq Ice, The Last and the Lost
Absolutely. Justice served with a side of pineapple. That's what I'm here for.
— Intisar Khanani, Sunbolt
When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.
— Auliq Ice
...in the running of cities, virtually nothing is done by anyone that is conducive to political health, nor is there a single ally with whom one might go to the aid of justice and still remain alive; it would be a case of a solitary human among wild animals, neither wanting to join in their depredations nor able to stand alone against their collective savagery, dead before he'd done any good to his city or friends and useless both to himself and everybody else. Once a person has made all these calculations, he keeps his peace and minds his own business, like someone withdrawing from the prevailing wind into the shelter of a wall in a storm of dust or rain, and as he sees everyone else filling themselves full of lawlessness he is content if he himself can somehow live out life here untainted by injustice and impious actions, and leave it with fine hopes and in a spirit of kindness and good will.
— Plato, The Republic
One day we shall all face the truth and reality that we all hate.
— Auliq Ice
Every transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, except with those who truly love themselves.
— Auliq Ice
Truth can hurt, but truth will bring you justice. Embrace the pain, and the truth shall set you free.
— Lik Hock Yap Ivan
Without peace, justice and freedom, the true value and dignity of mankind disappears.
— Auliq Ice
For if our bodies aren’t our own,And justice isn’t ours,And our love is just a sin,And voices by the peopleAre no longer for the people,What have we left to lose?
— Phar West Nagle
Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
— Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine
The land of the free full of freedom is the home of the brave.
— Auliq Ice
Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries.
— Auliq Ice
407Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.
— Qiu Xiaolong
The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy.
— Auliq Ice
Why must Justice have a color? Is it the same "REASON" that the sky are "BLUE?
— Henry Johnson Jr
I would rather die fighting for what is right, than live passively amidst all that is wrong.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Beware! Abstain from shedding blood without a valid cause. There is nothing more harmful than this which brings about one’s ruin. The blood that is willfully shed shortens the life of a state. On the Day of Judgement it is this crime for which one will have to answer first. So, beware! Do not wish to build the strength of your state on blood for, it is this blood which ultimately weakens the state and passes it into other hands. Before me and my God no excuse for willful killing can be entertained.
— Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?
— Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy
All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.
— Joy Harjo, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky: Poems
The demand for justice always exceeds the supply.
— Marty Rubin
Please open please if there's any justice in this world.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
The food chain has victims at both ends: even rapists and murderers need someone to look down on, and kid killers will do nicely.
— Michael Marshall, The Straw Men
You are so civilized. So polite. So brave coming here alone when you know no one here would dare to touch you. So easy to be all those things, when all the power is on your side.
— Ann Leckie, Ancillary Sword
Come meet my dog.""What's the dog's name?""Justice.""Nice touch for a judge. A dog named Justice.
— Allan Dare Pearce, Hitler Burns Detroit
Seek justice: Make a commitment to serve the needs of the ‘least of these’ and give voice to the voiceless.
— Artika R. Tyner, The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice
Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong. . . do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
— Exodus 23 2 NIVHoly Bible
...legal procedure has always tacitly been concerned with human relations, rather than abstract justice, and that consequently in spite of the legal codes it is really the human relations underneath that determine the verdicts in the courts.
— James  Jones
What is your hands to make a difference in the world?
— Artika R. Tyner, The Lawyer as Leader: How to Plant People and Grow Justice
Let's make progress justice a process, not an afterthought
— Simon S. Tam
War was so simple, wasn't it? Much simpler than justice.
— Kate Elliott, Traitors' Gate
. . . for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that great divine thing which is called justice.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
It is never right to injure anyone. It can never be right to make someone worse than he is.
— Alan Ryan, On Politics: A History of Political Thought from Herodotus to the Present
Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall.
— William   Murray
The doctors cannot make the ignorant think, cannot hope to bring home the sufferings of millions; only one of ourselves can someday do that...It will need great courage but it will be done, because all things must work toward ultimate good; there is no real wastage and no destruction.
— Radclyffe Hall
She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.
— Polly Shulman
He might fight under my badge, Bet'anya, but you're the only one he would die for.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty.
— José Martí
Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.
— Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and the Complete Works
That's justice," she said, nodding at the statue. "She doesn't hear you. She doesn't see you. She can't feel you and won't speak to you. Justice, Detective Bosch, is just a concrete blonde.
— Michael Connelly, The Concrete Blonde
And what is justice? The princess thought of that proud word 'justice'. All the complex laws of man centered for her in one clear and simple law—the law of love and self-sacrifice taught us by Him who lovingly suffered for mankind though He Himself was God. What had she to do with justice or injustice of other people? She had to endure and love, and that she did.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Striking a balance in life is tough, but trying to strike balance and remain fair in the face of imbalance and oppression is even tougher.
— Aisha Mirza
A good religious is the one who fights against the religion for the sake of religion.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
The law is logical and is based on common sense. The trick was to argue the law in favor of your particular point of view without sounding biased. It was kind of like a magic trick: the best illusionist being the one who can best manipulate the logic to his or her advantage, all the while giving the illusion of impartiality.
— Kenneth Eade, A Patriot's Act
A man of your valor deserves not another breath.
— Craig R. Key, A Sight Unseen
Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
We were to write a short essay on one of the works we read in the course and relate it to our lives. I chose the "Allegory of the Cave" in Plato's Republic. I compared my childhood of growing up in a family of migrant workers with the prisoners who were in a dark cave chained to the floor and facing a blank wall. I wrote that, like the captives, my family and other migrant workers were shackled to the fields day after day, seven days a week, week after week, being paid very little and living in tents or old garages that had dirt floors, no indoor plumbing, no electricity. I described how the daily struggle to simply put food on our tables kept us from breaking the shackles, from turning our lives around. I explained that faith and hope for a better life kept us going. I identified with the prisoner who managed to escape and with his sense of obligation to return to the cave and help others break free.
— Francisco Jiménez
The human quest for justice is an expression of the moral content of the fundamental laws of physics, which reveals itself in the search for a supreme law and a supreme lawmaker.
— Joseph B.H. McMillan, A 'Final Theory' of God
It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control.
— Marquita Burke-DeJesus, Radically Ordinary
Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me.
— Marquita Burke-DeJesus, Radically Ordinary
Some seek only the appearance of justice and virtues. Some seek real justice and virtues. Some others are too lazy to search at all.
— Klaudio Marashi