"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

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12/8/15

Quotes on JUSTICE


"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist." ~Sophocles (496 BC-406 BC)

"...... Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice. Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor and be in readiness for the conflict: for it is better for us to perish in the battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our alter. As the will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be." ~Sir Winston Churchill

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"If an idea is worth fighting for, no matter what the penalty, fight for the right and truth and justice will prevail." ~Joseph Benedict Chiefly

"If justice perishes, human life on Earth has lost its meaning." ~Immanuel Kant

"In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations." ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"In the end we must remember that no amount of rules or their enforcement will defeat those who struggle with justice on their side." ~Nelson Mandela speaking at the 50th anniversary of the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade), Geneva, Switzerland, 19 May 1988 LTL‬

"Justice is truth in action." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"Justice requires confronting injustice. Humanity requires confronting inhumanity." ~Joffre Balce

"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are." ~Benjamin Franklin

"Let love and justice flow like a mighty stream. Let peace fill the earth as water fills the sea." ~Torah

"Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past, by building a future based on equality and social justice." ~Nelson Mandela at the signing of the new Constitution, Sharpeville, Vereeniging, South Africa, 10 December 1996, The Living

"Men like Henry George are rare unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form and fervent love of justice. Every line is written as if for our generation. The spreading of these works is a really deserving cause, for our generation especially has many and important things to learn from Henry George." ~Albert Einstein

"No social justice without historical justice. No human rights unless there is association in equality. The struggle of the First Peoples of Australia is the struggle of all oppressed peoples." ~Joffre Balce

"Peace will not come out of a clash of arms, but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"Remember, the wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine." ~Ethel Pineda

"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice." ~Sigmund Freud

"There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts." ~Mahatma Gandhi

"There is no justice where there is no mutual and reciprocal care. Injustice arises where mutual and reciprocal care is lost." ~Joffre Balce

"Though the sword of justice is sharp, it will not slay the innocent." ~Chinese Proverb

"True warriors for social justice will never bow to masters responsible -- either by complicity or participation -- for social injustices and inequality in the application of rights in the world, regardless of what realpolitik presents as an excuse." ~Joffre Balce

"We learned that quiet isn't always peace, and the norms and notions of what 'just is' isn't always justice." ~Amanda Gorman

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"I always look at justices as the PARAGONS of legal minds and I'm always in awe whenever I read their decisions. To me, the Supreme Court is an institution of excellence and discipline." ~Rik Perez-Escudero (March 2018)

“Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.” ~Theodore Parker, Ten Sermons of Religion, 1853

"The suffering of one man is the suffering of all. Distances are irrelevant to injustice. If not stopped soon enough, evil eventually reaches out to engulf all men, whether they have opposed it or ignored it." ~Obi-wan Kenobi

"You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed." ~Frederick Douglass

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