Emily Maitlis Quotes

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

I've always tried to be fair, even-handed, not an advocate for any group.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

I'm very partisan, but I'm also very fair.

Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.

A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law.

I will not vote for - and no senator should vote for - anyone who will not render justice impartially.

We must correct what we find objectively wrong.

The scales of justice often, in my head, are unbalanced. And so my job is to try to balance out those scales.

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Justice is truth in action.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

The law is reason, free from passion.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

The essence of justice is mercy.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Justice should remove the bandage from her eyes long enough to distinguish between the vicious and the unfortunate.

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.