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

Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God’s love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin‘ away.

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. This is the most beautiful quality in a revolutionary.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

More law, less justice.

I am a just man.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Facts are stubborn things.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

The sexiest thing that a woman can do, wear, and say all fall under one word to me: subtlety. To be subtle in the things that she does and the things she says and the things she wears – I appreciate the details.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.

The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate… we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

I’m not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, ‚Let’s all just get along.‘ I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself.

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Justice… is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

Doubt thou the stars are fire, Doubt that the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar, But never doubt I love.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

Clever tyrants are never punished.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

I think the first duty of society is justice.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.