Bell Hooks Quotes

Justice without love is not justice. Love without justice is not love

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

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness in an everlasting stream.

I'm not the kind of judge where you get away with everything, because I know my basics. But I'm the judge where, if you emotionally capture me, then you've got me, I'm in your team.

I just want people to be equal and fair to each other.

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

We have to take care of people on all sides. We need justice.

It's very important to be just to other people. It takes years and years of living to learn that injustice against oneself is always unimportant.

there's no justice, there's only love.

Love is more just than justice.

None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

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

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

We should be tolerant, fair, open, and we should understand the rights that all people have in our society.

Together, we can build the kind of world in which we all seek to live, one of universal equality and justice.

A policy of humanity; a policy not of party, sect or creed; but of justice, of reason and mercy