Marilyn French Quotes

Justice is a fading light.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

I think justice is important because there are many injustices in the world and I hate injustice.

Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment of men by other men.

The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.

Love is the motive, but justice is the instrument.

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

What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.

Justice belongs to the people!

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.

I don't want tea, I want justice!

The attainment of a just society is the cherished hope of civilized men.

Justice is the bread of the nation; it is always hungry for it.

Justice means that we want life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all people.

Justice is the great interest of man on earth.

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. You keep your eyes open, you see this damned-to-hell world you got born into, and you ask yourself, 'What life can I live that will let me breathe in & out and love somebody or something and not run off screaming into the woods?

The law, for all its failings, has a noble goal - to make the little bit of life that people can actually control more just. We can't end disease or natural disasters, but we can devise rules for our dealings with one another that fairly weigh the rights and needs of everyone, and which, therefore, reflect our best vision of ourselves.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

Justice comes before charity.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

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

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.