Fanny Brice Quotes

Our concerns aren't always appropriate or morally elevated.

And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

Consider what you think justice requires, and decide accordingly. But never give your reasons; for your judgment will probably be right, but your reasons will certainly be wrong.

I was taught that the search for truth and the search for justice are not incompatible and are, in fact, essential.

Justice is truth in action.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

If principles don't determine what you are going to pass or do, then power will.

President Nixon's motto was, if two wrongs don't make a right, try three.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

I have ever had the single aim of justice in view. No judge who is influenced by any other consideration is fit for the bench. 'Do equal and exact justice,' is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, 'Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape.'

We should all be on the same team when it comes to truth and justice.

Justice is the handmaiden of truth, and when truth dies, justice is buried with it.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

I say that justice is truth in action.

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

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

This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the molestation of that process by the majority is an abuse of power that cannot stand.

You can't have justice unless you have truth.

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.

I will do everything by apply with all the legal and apply with the rule of law. And the main important thing that I have to be fairness to everyone, not just only one person.

I find that people... very few people think that what they're doing is bad, and usually the people who think what they're doing is bad it has more to do with guilt.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

Justice is the truth in action.

I have always supported measures and principles and not men.