Barack Obama Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Justice Quotes

I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Justice Quotes

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes , Justice Quotes , Suffering Quotes

The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Life Quotes , Justice Quotes

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Hero Quotes , Justice Quotes

And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Plato Quotes , Justice Quotes

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Justice Quotes , Diversity Quotes

Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Justice Quotes

Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Justice Quotes

Unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Justice Quotes

You can only have lasting peace based on justice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Justice Quotes

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Pain Quotes , Justice Quotes

They who are to be judges must also be performers.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Justice Quotes , Judging Quotes

It [Justice] is complete virtue in the fullest sense, because it is the active exercise of complete virtue; and it is complete because its possessor can exercise it in relation to another person, and not only by himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Exercise Quotes , Justice Quotes

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aime Cesaire Quotes , Justice Quotes , Diversity Quotes

The greatest injustices proceed from those who pursue excess, not by those who are driven by necessity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Justice Quotes , Excess Quotes

Then not only custom, but also nature affirms that to do is more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Plato Quotes , Equality Quotes , Justice Quotes

The world can be at peace only if the world is stable, and there can be no stability where the will is in rebellion, where there is not tranquility of spirit and a sense of justice, of freedom, and of right.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Peace Quotes , Justice Quotes

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Justice Quotes , Pleasure Quotes

Tremble, thou wretch, That hast within thee undivulged crimes Unwhipped of justice.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Justice Quotes , Crime Quotes

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Peace Quotes , Justice Quotes