Human Justice Quotes
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I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
I stand for simple justice, equal opportunity and human rights. The indispensable elements in a democratic society - and well worth fighting for.
— Helen Suzman
we rescue our tears from the sea
secure them by writ — M. NourbeSe Philip
secure them by writ — M. NourbeSe Philip
The attainment of justice is the highest human endeavor.
— Florence Ellinwood Allen
There are times, young fellah, when every one of us must make a stand for human right and justice, or you never feel clean again.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.
— Norman Cousins
If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning.
— Immanuel Kant
When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.
— Auliq Ice
Heaven's slow but sure redress of human ills.
— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
Justice is never advanced in the taking of human life.
— Coretta Scott King
Theology should be a discourse that helps the sociopolitical approach to justice to maintain its human face and not to become impersonal.
— Namsoon Kang
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
— Isaiah Berlin
No human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.
— John Ruskin
Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if only you pull it in the right way.
— Wilkie Collins
If we choose not to get involved or pretend it's not happening, we're going against the very sense of connection that makes us human.
— Brene Brown
Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.
— Ronald Reagan
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.
— Marty Rubin
I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being.
— Charles Kingsley
The issue that a political campaign would make a human life into - you know - a political football, is unsettling.
— John Hickenlooper
Justice and mercy/ Are human dreams, they do not concern the birds nor the fish nor eternal God.
— Robinson Jeffers
We shall be free only together, black and white. We shall survive only together, black and white. We can be human only together, black and white.
— Desmond Tutu
I have one abiding religion-human liberty.
— Wole Soyinka
Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.
— Kim Dae-jung
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Congress, even with its frustrations, is the greatest instrument for justice and human welfare in the world.
— Rush D. Holt Jr.
When a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
All human governments are intended by God to do justice and mercy - to look after, in particular, the needs of the poor and disadvantaged.
— N. T. Wright
Justice must take account of infinite circumstances which a human being cannot understand.
— Clarence Darrow
To be human you must bear witness to justice.
— Cornel West
Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.
— Thomas Noon Talfourd
True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.
~ Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein
~ Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein
The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.
— Ben Whishaw
In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
What is new is not bisexuality, but rather the widening of our awareness and acceptance of human capacities for sexual love.
— Margaret Mead
Recognition of the genocide is a triumph of human conscience and justice over intolerance and hatred.
— Serzh Sargsyan
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.
— Theodore Parker
In a fair and just society you can't create laws based on how you feel at the worst moment in your life.
— Norris Henderson
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.
— Alexander Hamilton
She wondered if justice was possible in a world full of profoundly evil and damaged human beings, in a veritable universe of damage.
— Lisa Scottoline
Freemasonry is founded on the immutable laws of Truth and Justice and its grand object is to promote the happiness of the human race.
— George Washington
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world.
— Hu Shih
Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.
— Nelson Mandela
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race.
— John Oliver Killens
Whiteness, Fanon asserts, has become a symbol of purity, of Justice, Truth, Virginity. It defi nes what it means to be civilized, modern and human
— Anonymous
Justice is a faculty that may be developed. This development is what constitutes the education of the human race.
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Deep in the human heart
The fire of justice burns;
A vision of a world renewed
Through radical concern. — William Wallace
The fire of justice burns;
A vision of a world renewed
Through radical concern. — William Wallace
The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
— Ken MacLeod
At 12, I knew that the point of being human was to spend one's life fighting social injustice.
— Richard Rorty
Think how different human societies would be if they were based on love rather than justice. But no such societies have ever existed on earth.
— Mortimer Adler
Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.
— Marcus Garvey
I don't want to coexist. I want to exist as a human being. And justice will take care of the rest.
— Remi Kanazi
Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza
Bribe
Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. — Idries Shah
Bribe
Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice. — Idries Shah
People with no human values are worse than zombies.
— Mohith Agadi
One doesn't expect justice from life ... it's the function of human beings to put it there ...
— Gwethalyn Graham
No one has a human right to hide from justice behind a veil.
— Melanie Phillips
Only tyranny fears the full expression of liberty.
— Jose Marti
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
God is hidden in vocations that bear authority. But that puts the pressure on human beings exercise that authority to act with God's justice and grace
— Gene Edward Veith Jr.
Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
— Imelda Marcos
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
— Edmund Burke
Democracy is not an end in itself, but a means to achieve the sacred promises of human dignity, justice and peace
— Alfred-Maurice De Zayas
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
It's Unfair to be fair,
For Life is unfair — Farley Maglaya
For Life is unfair — Farley Maglaya
Every human tribunal ought to take care to administer justice, as we look hereafter to have justice administered to ourselves.
— Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine
Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.
— Robert Kennedy
What do we want for people? Human dignity, personal expression and fulfillment, justice, freedom.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.
— Jamaica Kincaid
The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.
— John Rawls
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
— Franz Boas
How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error.
— Robert M. Lindner
In the end, the innate desire of all people for truth, justice, and human understanding must triumph over ignorance and despair.
— Dalai Lama XIV
What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant. — Suzy Kassem
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Everything else -
Is irrelevant. — Suzy Kassem
If human justice is to supplement Nature's provisions, all family duties must be shared equitably, in person or by proxy.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
When women act like women, they are accused of being inferior. When women act like human beings, they are accused of behaving like men.
— Simone De Beauvoir
There are only two things really that even the best of best human beings crave -redemption and revenge. Lucky for me, both meant the same things.
— Bhaskaryya Deka
We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help free the other half.
— Emmeline Pankhurst