#justice

We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#criminal #criminal justice #economic #economic justice #electoral

He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that tried to gain admission. But if he dreaded exposure of his tenderness, he was equally desirous that all men should recognize his justice; and he felt that he had been unjust, in giving so scornful a hearing to anyone who had waited, with humble patience, for five hours, to speak to him. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#tenderness #vulnerability #equality

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#being #doing #i #injustice #justice

They were handsome, proper and normal family fathers who built the concentration camps and whipped the prisoners to death. And who was Nietzsche? A narcotized syphilitic. ↗

— Jens Bjørneboe

#injustice #nietzsche #death

Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance. ↗

— Kim Campbell

#equality #homeland #justice #tolerance

In addition, for almost a year now I have been urging the President, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate suspicious gas price spikes. ↗

— Lois Capps

#almost #been #commission #department #federal

The greatest injustice in the world is to bring a child into the world, and not be able to offer it peace. ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

#bring #child #greatest #injustice #into

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#cunning #divorced #justice #knowledge #may

The more laws, the less justice. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#justice #laws #less #more

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. ↗