Jane Hirshfield Quotes

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

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

Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.

I say that justice is truth in action.

Justice is truth in action.

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.

I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.

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

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

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

I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

Justice is the truth in action.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

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

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

Justice is better than chivalry if we cannot have both.

Justice is not a prize tendered to the good-natured, nor is it to be withheld from the ill-bred.

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.

We need a President who is more interested in being right and just than being President.

Justice, justice shall you pursue.

There is no zeal blinder than that which is impaired with the love of justice against offenders.

There is one voice which is not heard in the crackling of the fire or in the roaring of the whirlwind or the storm, but which will and must be heard when they have passed away—the still small voice of justice.