#justice

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#against #cases #chief #chief justice #commandments

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#civil #civil government #equity #founded #government

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

#almost #changed #conquest #continued #countries

Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless. ↗

— Iain Pears

#philosophy #power #public-service #tyranny #virtue

Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#individual #justice #major #perpetrators #rights

The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past. ↗

— Jalal Talabani

#crimes #justice #manner #must #our

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#i #injustice #much #people #probably

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice. ↗

— Demosthenes

#image #justice #love #truth #us

Our lawyers had their chat with the Supreme Court Justice, and promised to repast the chat to other members of the Supreme Court to find out whether they wanted to hear us out. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

#court #find #had #hear #justice

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt. ↗

— Learned Hand

#breach #cannot #cold #disconcerting #doubt