Quotes by Justice If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity. Alberto Manguel divinity justice may A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are determined on a local level. Aldis Hodge impact justice people Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know. Aldous Huxley diversity ignorance justice Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn triumph wisdom justice We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn justice people ideas The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn agreement justice ideas You can't expect the institution to learn, if it doesn't accept any sense of justice. Alex Gibney institutions accepting justice [Y]ou wonder why anyone would make the mistake of calling it the Commerce Clause instead of the 'Hey, you -can-do-whatever-you-feel-like Clause? Alex Kozinski hey mistake justice Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. Alexander Hamilton passion justice men Has it not. . . invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice? Alexander Hamilton human-nature passion justice A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought to command the admiration of every friend to human nature. But if sullied by crimes and extravagancies, it loses its respectability. Alexander Hamilton humanity struggle justice The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority. Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing. Alexander Hamilton practice rights justice There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments . . . -I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice. Alexander Hamilton government justice mean Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and to be taxed by my own representatives only. What will become of the law and courts of justice without this? The shadow may remain, but the substance will be gone. I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed. Alexander Hamilton law justice giving [T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that quarter . . . Alexander Hamilton liberty justice people If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty. Alexander Hamilton independent strong justice The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have no other sanction than the obligations of good faith; and which oppose general considerations of peace and justice to the impulse of any immediate interest and passion. Alexander Hamilton passion broken justice Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood. Alexander Pope justice hands blood There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul. Alexander Smith justice weather giving It is the sternest philosophy, but on the whole the truest, that, in the wide arena of the world, failure and success are not accidents, as we so frequently suppose, but the strictest justice. Alexander Smith success-and-failure failure justice «345678910111213»