Civil Justice Quotes

#1. From Zachary Blake? Not a chance in hell. All his cases are high-profile. And these days, he's got a Midas touch. Every case he touches turns to gold. Blake is on a personal crusade for civil justice and safety - truth, justice, and the American way, don't you know? Guns are an excellent target issue for someone like him. #Quote by Mark M. Bello

#2. The civil justice system is a backup system when the criminal justice system fails. #Quote by Ralph Nader

#3. The American people do not want people thumbing their nose at the law. It undercuts the very fabric of our society and the system of civil justice and of criminal justice as well. #Quote by Ernest Istook

#4. The failure to invest in civil justice is directly related to the increase in criminal disorder. The more people feel there is injustice the more it becomes part of their psyche. #Quote by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

#5. Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice. #Quote by Joseph Story

#6. But it's how we deal with life's challenges - both internal and external ones - that defines us. Do we face them fearlessly, with courage and a sense of justice? Or do we run from them, seeking any easy answer to help hide from the harsh truths of life? Everyone is different, and it's difficult to tell who's who until one is tested. #Quote by Morgan Rhodes

#7. Carl Schmitt could boast with some justice that the Nazi revolution was orderly and disciplined. But the reason lies not so much within the Nazis themselves as in the lack of an effective opposition. For millions the Nazi ideology did assuage their anxiety, did end their alienation, and did give hope for a better future. Other millions watched passively, not deeply committed to resistance. "Let them have a chance" was a typical attitude. Hitler took the chance and made the most of it. #Quote by George L. Mosse

#8. We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects of public excitement and allow a broader view, not tied to the whims of the majority at a certain moment in history. #Quote by Herb Kohl

#9. The wisdom of the most sagacious ancient Greeks, the wisdom of the most perceptive rabbis of ancient Canaan, and all the parables of Christ teach us to believe not in justice, but in truth. In a world of rampant lying, where so many lies are used to inflame passions and justify false grievances, the indiscriminate pursuit of justice leads sooner or later to insanity, mass murder, and the ruin of entire civilizations. #Quote by Dean Koontz

#10. President Kennedy has named two Negroes to District Judgeships and appointed Thurgood Marshall to the United States Court of Appeals. When I came to the Department of Justice, there were only ten Negroes employed as lawyers; not a single Negro served as a United States Attorney - or ever had in the history of the country. That has been changed. #Quote by Robert Kennedy

#11. We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy! #Quote by Joshua Wong

#12. Higgins: I'm an ordinary man, who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants. An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife Doing whatever he thinks is best for him, Well, just an ordinary man #Quote by Rex Harrison

#13. It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun. #Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

#14. The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated. #Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

#15. Terrorism has replaced Communism as the rationale for the militarization of the country [America], for military adventures abroad, and for the suppression of civil liberties at home. It serves the same purpose, serving to create hysteria. #Quote by Howard Zinn

#16. Whatever criticism we may have for Jonah, at least it can be said that Jonah was consistent. This legalistic, over-judgmental, young prophet will consistently proscribe the most severe form of punishment for the guilty
even when the guilty party is himself. The young Jonah hijacks written Torah to condemn everyone
even himself. #Quote by Michael Ben Zehabe

#17. The annals of official philosophy are populated by 'bureaucrats of pure reason' who speak in 'the shadow of the despot' and are in historical complicity with the State. They invent 'a properly spiritual…absolute State that… effectively functions in the mind.' Theirs is a discourse of sovereign judgment, of stable subjectivity legislated by 'good' sense, of rocklike identity, 'universal' truth, and (white male) justice. 'Thus the exercise of their thought is in conformity with the aims of the real State, with the dominant significations, and with the requirements of the established order. #Quote by Gilles Deleuze

#18. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built. #Quote by Abraham Lincoln

#19. The United States should be an asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. #Quote by Thomas Paine

#20. It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges. #Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

#21. Without peace and the rule of law, civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights cannot be enjoyed, when killing, maiming and mutual poisoning prevail. #Quote by Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#22. She fell in love with freedom. In the Sommers' home she had lived shut up within four walls, in a stagnant atmosphere where time moved in circles and where she could barely glimpse the horizon through distorted windowpanes. She had grown up clad in the impenetrable armor of good manners and conventions, trained from girlhood to please and serve, bound by corset, routines, social norms, and fear. Fear had been her companion: fear of God and his unpredictable justice, of authority, of her adoptive parents, of illness and evil tongues, of anything unknown or different; fear of leaving the protection of her home and facing the dangers outside; fear of her own fragility as a woman, of dishonor and truth. Hers had been a sugar-coated reality built on the unspoken, on courteous silences, well-guarded secrets, order, and discipline. She had aspired to virtue but now she questioned the meaning of the word. #Quote by Isabel Allende

#23. It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive. #Quote by Earl Warren

#24. I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767) #Quote by Voltaire

#25. The duty of a judge is to administer justice, but his practice is to delay it #Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

#26. Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace #Quote by Alfred-Maurice De Zayas

#27. He was to become the lawmaker for the poor and the downtrodden and the oppressed. He was to be the bearer of at least a measure of social justice to those whom social justice had so long been denied. The restorer of at least a measure of dignity to those who so desperately needed to be given some dignity. The redeemer of the promises made by them to America. "It is time to write it in the books of law." By the time Lyndon Johnson left office he had done a lot of writing in those books, had become, above all presidents save Lincoln, the codifier of compassion, the president who wrote mercy and justice in the statute books by which America was governed. #Quote by Robert A. Caro

#28. Peace is the absence of war, but beyond that peace is a commodity unlike any other. Peace is security. Peace is a mindset. Peace is a way of living. Peace is the capacity to transcend past hurts - to break cycles of violence and forge new pathways that say, I would like to make sure we live as a community where there is justice, security, and development for all members. At the end of the day, peace is an investment; it is something you create by investing in a way of life and monitoring where your resources go. #Quote by Noeleen Heyzer

#29. One thing, however, is sure, - that in all cases the effort should be to impose all the cost of repairing the wrong upon the doer of the wrong. This alone is real justice, and of course such justice is necessarily free. #Quote by Benjamin Tucker

#30. Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. #Quote by Robert Shapiro

#31. In the years preceding the Civil War in America, Christian ministers wrote nearly half of all defenses of slavery. #Quote by Rachel Held Evans

#32. If you want knowledge, read daily.
If you want understanding, study regularly.
If you want wisdom, reason continually.
If you want kindness, give constantly.
If you want joy, laugh frequently.
If you want faith, believe firmly.
If you want peace, meditate consistently.
If you want mercy, forgive unconditionally.
If you want love, give charitably.
If you want equality, object intelligently.
If you want freedom, protest strongly.
If you want justice, fight forcefully.
If you want morals, live religiously.
If you want strength, excersise vigorously.
If you want power, plot brilliantly.
If you want fame, shine resiliently.
If you want riches, strive habitually.
If you want success, work diligently.
If you want fufilment, love abundantly.
If you want God, pray purposefully.
If you want life, grow spiritually. #Quote by Matshona Dhliwayo

#33. Justice is impartiality. Only strangers are impartial. #Quote by George Bernard Shaw

#34. If we truly believe in the power of cultural institutions to impact communities and engage authentically with social justice issues, if we believe in museums' capacity to bring about social change, improve cultural awareness, and even transform the world, than we must also believe that our internal practices have an impact, and must act according to the changes we seek. #Quote by Monica O Montgomery

#35. In money-lenders' capital the form M-C-M is reduced to the two extremes without a mean, M-M , money exchanged for more money, a form that is incompatible with the nature of money, and therefore remains inexplicable from the standpoint of the circulation of commodities. Hence Aristotle: since chrematistic is a double science, one part belonging to commerce, the other to economic, the latter being necessary and praiseworthy, the former based on circulation and with justice disapproved (for it is not based on Nature, but on mutual cheating), therefore the usurer is most rightly hated, because money itself is the source of his gain, and is not used for the purposes for which it was invented. #Quote by Karl Marx

#36. It's absurd. We would all like to see Cuba move toward civil society and free markets and greater respect for human rights. But the U.S. policy is exactly the wrong way to go about it. #Quote by Wayne Smith

#37. There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale. #Quote by James Patterson

#38. Justice - there is an air of nobility about the word. It calls to mind other words like equity, fairness, and truth. It speaks of honor and exactness. It speaks of righteousness. But, sadly, in today's world its application is often anything but noble, honorable, or righteous. #Quote by Lance B. Wickman

#39. Victor wanted to have the strength to watch, to witness the brutality and be strong enough to tell the world about it. He wanted to witness it and by witnessing make it real, unable to be forgotten; he wanted this horror seared into every pale pink fiber of his skull. #Quote by Sunil Yapa

#40. Murder may pass unpunishd for a time, But tardy justice will oertake the crime. #Quote by John Dryden

#41. Authenticity is an act of social justice. #Quote by Kierra C.T. Banks

#42. Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death. #Quote by R.D. Laing

#43. Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. #Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.

#44. Whatever else the religious Right may be, it is a bonanza for its opponents ... Reports of the great terror that is upon us are raising millions of dollars in fund appeals by Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Organization for Women, Norman Lear's People for the American Way, and others who claim to believe that the religious Right is the greatest peril to American democracy since Joe McCarthy. #Quote by Richard John Neuhaus

#45. Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave-master. They had, the masters, incontestably, the rope - in time, with enough, they would hang themselves with it. They were not to hang me: I was to see to that. #Quote by James Baldwin

#46. It is a different world and they [the Supreme Court] should speak for justice, not prejudice ... I seek justice, not in some distant tomorrow, not in some study commission, but now while I Iive. #Quote by Martha Griffiths

#47. I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of Islam: precepts of balance, justice and moderation. Although my religious education was very literal, in that I learnt to understand the precepts of the Koran precisely according to the text, we have seen that on several occasions throughout my life, I have felt myself to be very particularly in the hands of the Almighty. #Quote by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

#48. Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside. #Quote by Austin O'Malley

#49. Mary was made Mother of God to obtain salvation for many who, on account of their wicked lives, could not be saved according to the rigor of Divine justice, but might be saved with the help of her sweet mercy and powerful intercession. #Quote by Saint John Chrysostom

#50. The common stock of intellectual enjoyment should not be difficult of access because of the economic position of him who would approach it. #Quote by Jane Addams