Nancy Gibbs Quotes

If justice is supposed to be fair, than any justice system you would hope is based on fairness.

God is no respecter of persons or causes.

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.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

You shall not be partial in judgment: hear out low and high alike.

A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.

Get out of the way of Justice. She is blind.

Do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your neighbor fairly.

The keystone to justice is the belief that the legal system treats all fairly.

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?

Swift justice demands more than just swiftness.

No matter who or what you support, I believe in supporting fairness first.

If the law doesn't apply equally to everybody, then you don't really have a system of law.

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

The essence of justice is mercy.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

The law is cruel.

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

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.