William Murray Quotes

The fundamental issue is the moral issue.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

Inequality is a fact. Equality is a value.

Justice and fairness and history are not necessarily decisive in what happens.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right?

To strictest justice many ills belong, And honesty is often in the wrong.

Never expect justice in this world. That is not part of God's plan. Everybody thinks that if they don't get it, they're some kind of odd man out. And it's not true. Nobody gets justice - people just get good luck or bad luck.

There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice.

There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.

I loathe your ideals because I know no worse injustice than the giving of the undeserved.

People don't always get what they deserve in this world.

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

There was no justice, there was only life. And life she had.

Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.

THERE'S NO JUSTICE, said Mort. JUST US.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

No one can define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love. No one can define or measure any value. But if no one speaks up for them, if systems aren’t designed to produce them, if we don’t speak about them and point toward their presence or absence, they will cease to exist.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Unfortunately justice is the train that's nearly always late.