J Quotes
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“Justice was revenge wrapping itself in a cloak of high principle.”
Source: Waiting for the dark, waiting for the light
“Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.”
Source: Hudibras: In three parts, written in the time of the late wars
“Justice White's conclusion is perhaps correct, if one assumes that the task of a court of law is to plumb the intent of the particular Congress that enacted a particular provision. That methodology is not mine nor, I think, the one that courts have traditionally followed. It is our task, as I see it, not to enter the minds of the Members of Congress - who need have nothing in mind in order for their votes to be both lawful and effective - but rather to give fair and reasonable meaning to the text of the United States Code, adopted by various Congresses at various times.”
“Justice wields an erratic sword, grants mercy to fortunate few. Yet if man doesn't fight for her, 'tis chaos he's left to.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
“Justice will prevail!”
“Justice William Brennan stated that the phrase 'under God' in our Pledge of Allegiance is constitutional because it no longer has a religious purpose or meaning.”
“Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”
Source: Blaise Pascal Thoughts: Selected and Translated
“Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love”
“Justice without mercy is tyranny”
“Justice without mercy was tyranny, and mercy without justice was lawlessness. Yahweh had created both to work together, for his glory and for our good”
Source: A Light on the Hill
“Justice without the possibility of mercy is simply vengeance.”
Source: Burn Red Skies
“Justice without wisdom is impossible.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Justice! Custodian of the world! But since the world errs, justice must be custodian of the world's errors.”
“Justice, and only justice, shall always be our motto.”
“Justice, even if slow, is sure.”
“Justice, however, never was in reality administered gratis in any country. Lawyers and attornies, at least, must always be paid by the parties; and, if they were not, they would perform their duty still worse than they actually perform it.”
Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Source: Dust tracks on a road
“Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.”
“Justice, like vengeance, is not good eaten cold.”
“Justice, love, truth, peace and harmony, a serene unity with science and the laws of the universe.”
“Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.”
“Justice, not the majority, should rule.”
“Justice, poised and balanced in eternal calm, will shake from the golden scales in which are weighed the acts of men, the very dust of prejudice and caste: No race, no color, no previous condition, can change the rights of men.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.”
Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.”
Source: The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster
“Justice, though due to the accused, is due the accuser also. The concept of fairness cannot be strained till it is narrowed to a filament. We are to keep our balance true.”
“Justice, though moving with tardy pace, has seldom failed to overtake the wicked in their flight.
[Lat., Raro antecedentem scelestum
Deseruit pede poena claudo.]”
“Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.”
Source: Letter to a Priest
“Justice, voiceless, unseen, seeth thee when thou sleepest and when thou goest forth and when thou liest down. Continually doth she attend thee, now aslant thy course, now at a later time. These lines are from a section of doubtful or spurious fragments.”
“Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!”
“Justice-seekers everywhere will celebrate Dunbar-Ortiz's unflinching commitment to truth-a truth that places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the United States.”
“Justice. To be ever ready to admit that another person is something quite different from what we read when he is there (or when we think about him). Or rather, to read in him that he is certainly something different, perhaps something completely different from what we read in him. Every being cries out silently to be read differently.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.”
“Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.”
Source: Heretics of Dune
“Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.”
Source: The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings
“Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.”
“Justices in the United States believe that their duty is to uphold the Constitution, but if they do not understand that the authority of the Constitution itself rests upon the inalienable natural rights of all human beings, then they not only undermine the Constitution, which they are sworn to uphold but also turn themselves into wielders of arbitrary power. Regrettably, this misuse of power occurred in both the Dred Scott decision and in the Roe v. Wade decision (and its subsequent interpretation in cases such as Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Robert P. Casey).”
Source: Ten Universal Principles: A Brief Philosophy of the Life Issues
“Justicia es mi meditación - igualdad es mi meditación - humanidad es mi meditación.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Justicia. Eso es algo que anhelar, algo de lo que nunca estaremos hartos. Pero no. Nos conformamos con la ley”
Source: Assassin's Apprentice / Royal Assassin
“Justicia no significa ausencia de injusticia, Justicia significa ausencia de indiferencia.”
Source: Abigitano: El Divino Refugiado
“Justicia y juicio son dos cosas diferentes, Justicia significa pertenencia, juicio significa cancelación.”
Source: Generacion Justicia: Día de Los Vivos, Abigitano 2
“Justicia y juicio son el cimiento de tu trono; Misericordia y verdad van delante de tu rostro”
Source: Santa Biblia Reina-Valera 1960
“Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.”
“Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns”
Source: Horae Homileticae: Or Discourses (principally in the Form of Skeletons) Now First Digested Into One Continued Series, and Forming a Commentary Upon Every Book of the Old and New Testament; to which is Annexed, an Improved Edition of a Translation of Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon: In Twenty-one Volumes. Galatians-Ephesians
“Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.”
“Justification by faith is the key to eliminating racism.”
“Justification by grace through faith' is the theologian's learned phrase for what Chesterton once called 'the furious love of G-d.' He is not moody or capricious; He knows no seasons of change. He has a single relentless stance toward us: He loves us. He is the only G-d man has ever heard of who loves sinners. False gods- the gods of human manufacturing- despise sinners, but the Father of (Yeshua) loves all, no matter what they do.”
“Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. . . That doctrine makes the Lord Jesus Christ to be practically a nobody; for if salvation be of works, then the way of salvation through faith in a Savior is superfluous, and even mischievous”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37
“Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.”
Source: Harvard Business Review Leadership Library: The Executive Collection (12 Books)