Clare Short Quotes

The sturdiest pillars of human morality are compassion and a sense of justice.

A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.

Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.

Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.

Win or lose, do it fairly.

The precepts of the law are these: to live honestly, to injure no one, and to give everyone else his due.

Be just before you are generous.

Moral authority comes from following universal and timeless principles like honesty, integrity, treating people with respect.

I don't think I should penalize people who were doing their duty.

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

Human and moral factors must always be considered. They must never be missing from policies and from public discussion.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

Transcend political correctness and strive for human righteousness.

That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.

He who spares the bad injures the good.

It is the duty of the law-giver to deliver to the many the instructions of whose truth he has persuaded himself.

We've begun to get justice.

Our sense of fairness tells us that people should pay for the wrong they do.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

What I'm doing is writing stories about women who care about justice. They are women who think about the difference between right and wrong, what's legal and illegal, ethical and unethical, moral and immoral.

I believe in justice, and I believe in people being held responsible for their actions.

One threatens the innocent who spares the guilty.