Lisa Scottoline Quotes

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

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

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

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

In civilized life, law floats in a sea of ethics. Each is indispensable to civilization. Without law, we should be at the mercy of the least scrupulous; without ethics, law could not exist.

Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

Marcus Garvey does not give a snap for anything human but justice, and that which is based upon righteousness.

It is right to give every man his due.

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Ethics to me is very important.

It is impossible to tell where the law stops and justice begins.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

May the foundation of our new constitution be justice, Truth and Righteousness.

What is right is not derived from the rule, but the rule arises from our knowledge of what is right

All Americans want our government to have a moral compass.

Civilization depends on morality.

We’re not here to bring politics to our morality, but to bring morality to our politics.

It’s clear that cracking the genetic code would be of significantly less benefit if we allow our moral code to become cracked as well.

While I'm the Attorney General, we will address each issue with one question: What's the right thing to do?

I believe in creating a workplace where a deep sense of justice underpins everything we do.

Are we a people who put politics over integrity? Or are we a country of voters and leaders, men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, colleagues, humans who care about treating each other with basic dignity?