It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic. – Henry Rollins
One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to. – Graham Hawkes
The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice. – Garet Garrett
A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a hippopotamus, buy a flower at the corner, or get a good hamburger or a bad girl at 4 A.M. A city is where sirens make white streaks of sound in the sky and foghorns speak in dark grays. San Francisco is such a city. – Herb Caen
Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie. – Horace Walpole
I believe in the law. I think we have a great system of justice. But I do think that system of justice has been corrupted by racism and classism. I think it’s difficult for ‘poor people’ – poor white people, brown people – to be treated fairly before the law in the same way that upper-class people are. – Henry Louis Gates
People demand a lot of the justice system and they demand things that it can’t deliver. – Helen Garner
If succeeding generations of Americans don’t understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee that those concepts – or others like them – will continue. – George Nethercutt
We are in the midst of an exciting canvass… I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality. – Hiram Rhodes Revels
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I’ve been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law. – Harold H. Greene
Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you’re not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that’s not your goal. With comedy, you’re trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it’s harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You’re like, ‘I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.’ – Harley Quinn Smith
Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty. – Horatio Nelson
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted. – George Ripley
I’m a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace. – Hugo Chavez
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes… You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror. – Hunter S. Thompson
I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice – and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree! – Harold H. Greene
So the people will pay the penalty for their kings’ presumption, who, by devising evil, turn justice from her path with tortuous speech. – Hesiod
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph. – Haile Selassie
My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary. – Hans Frank
In the order I was in, each brother takes five vows, one of which is teaching the poor gratuitously. As a young person I was seized by this idea of social justice and I wanted very much to follow my vow of teaching the poor gratuitously. – Godfrey Reggio
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. – Henry David Thoreau
The absence and suppression of justice can only open the way for extremists to exploit such a condition to perpetrate acts of violence against innocents. – Hussein of Jordan
The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I’m in that mold. – Harold H. Greene
The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. – Gerry Spence