We give Supreme Court justices this freedom because we expect them to remain above the pull of politics, to avoid the effects of public excitement and allow a broader view, not tied to the whims of the majority at a certain moment in history.
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.
Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.
Our search for such [moral] principles can start with. . . the unconditional imperative to acknowledge every person as a person. If we ask for the contents given by this absolute, we find, first, something negative-the command not to treat a person as a thing. This seems little, but it is much. It is the core of the principle of justice.
Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
The Scalia seat is defense. We're not going to get any better than Justice Scalia. The best we can do is preserve constitutional victories like upholding the Second Amendment, like protecting religious liberty. But we're not going to get any better.
Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
When you're fighting for social justice, one of my biggest pet peeves is speaking out of ignorance.
The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to "empathy".
Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
Wherever there are beginners and experts, old and young, there is some kind of learning going on, some kind of teaching. We are all pupils and we are all teachers.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.
You feign guilt in order to justify yourself.
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Before a fight between Riddick Bowe and Hector Gonzales: Generally when there's a lot of smoke. . . there's just a whole lot more smoke.
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on war since 1946, until hatred and conflict have become the international preoccupation.
We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if no one else does. We are vegan because justice minimally requires that we not take life for trivial purposes.
