Justice Truth Quotes

• It is not the function of government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Fall, Errors, Government

  American Communications Ass'n v. Douds (1950)

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• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Relationship, Truth

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sad

  "Fictional character: Mahatma Gandhi". "Gandhi", 1982.

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• Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Wisdom, Peace, Kings

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• Truth never damages a cause that is just.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.47, New Directions Publishing

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• Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Freedom, Integrity, Adversity

  The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness foreword (1944)

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• I say that justice is truth in action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Truth, Justice, Political

  'Hansard' 11 February 1851

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  There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

  Elie Wiesel

  Freedom, Philosophy, Military

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

  Anatole France

  Mean, Justice, Injustice

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• When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sad, Peace, Truth

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• I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.

  Malcolm X

  Truth, Criminal Mind, Matter

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.372, Ballantine Books

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• The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Peace, Freedom, War

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Law Courts, Government, Libertarian Party

  Olmstead v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1928)

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• If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Education, Freedom, War

  Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816

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• You can't kill the truth.

  Mira Grant

  Rights, Amnesty International, Human Freedom

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• Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  4th Of July, Mean, America

  Theodore Roosevelt (2001). “The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt”, Cooper Square Pub

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• What is the good life? What is the good man? The good woman? What is the good society and what is my relation to it? What are my obligations to society? What is best for my children? What is justice? Truth? Virtue? What is my relation to nature, to death, to aging, to pain, to illness? How can I live a zestful, enjoyable, meaningful life? What is my responsibility to my brothers? Who are my brothers? What shall I be loyal to? What must I be ready to die for?

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Brother, Children

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• What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding lights of a life.

  Jimmy Carter

  Humility, Helping Others, Compassion

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• Too many young folk have addiction to superficial things and not enough conviction for substantial things like justice, truth and love.

  Cornel West

  Love, Truth, Superficial Things

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• It is in the book of man, not the book of god, that we must look for examples of heroism, love, pity, justice, truth, honor, humanity.

  M. M. Mangasarian

  Book, Men, Justice

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• I suppose the thing I most would have liked to have known or been reassured about is that in the world, what counts more than talent, what counts more than energy or concentration or commitment, or anything else - is kindness. And the more in the world that you encounter kindness and cheerfulness - which is its kind of amiable uncle or aunt - the better the world always is. And all the big words: virtue, justice, truth - are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.

  Stephen Fry

  Uncles, Kindness, Commitment

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• The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to
  an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.

  Abraham Maslow

  Zero, Men, Justice

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, Gary Heil (1998). “Maslow on management”, Wiley

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• Justice, truth, and beauty are sisters and comrades. With three such beautiful words we have no need to look for any others.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Beautiful, Justice

  Simone Weil (2014). “Letter to a Priest”, p.84, Routledge

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• All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

  Stephen Fry

  Kindness, Greatness, Justice

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• Only a law-order which holds to the primacy of God's law can bring forth true freedom, freedom for justice, truth, and godly life. Freedom as an absolute is simply an assertion of man's "right" to be his own god; this means a radical denial of God's law-order. "Freedom" thus is another name for the claim by man to divinity and autonomy. It means that man becomes his own absolute.

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Mean, Godly, Men

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