#justice

"Empathy" is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash. ↗

— Karl Rove

#backlash #branch #clay #code #constitution

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#become #block #discrimination #easier #half

What Mr. Obama wants in a nominee isn't really "empathy" and "understanding." He wants a liberal, activist Supreme Court justice. ↗

— Karl Rove

#court #empathy #justice #liberal #mr

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity. ↗

— Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

#achievement #american #american life #crucible #democratic

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. ↗

— Plato

#concerns #justice #means #meddling #men

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Plato

#cunning #justice #knowledge #ought #rather

Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. ↗

— Plato

#citizens #conduct #first #hearts #justice

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. ↗

— Plato

#ever #injustice #made #more #suffers

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not. ↗

— Plato

#highest #injustice #just #reach #you

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. ↗

— Plato

#any #because #censured #doing #fear