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

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don‘ t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.

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

There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I don’t think that a Justice should have uppermost in her mind, ‚A Democratic president appointed me, so I must leave to be sure that another Democratic president can appoint my successor.‘

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

Freedom is not enough.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

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

If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.

Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

I worked at the Steel Company Of Wales when I was 17. My job was to supply tools to the guys working the blast furnaces.

Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

For me, my secularism is, India first. I say, the philosophy of my party is ‚Justice to all. Appeasement to none.‘ This is our secularism.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

I don’t have to see a murder in order to condemn murder.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders.

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

In the United States, one of the main topics of academic political science is the study of attitudes and policy and their correlation. The study of attitudes is reasonably easy in the United States: heavily-polled society, pretty serious and accurate polls, and policy you can see, and you can compare them.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Nobody is above the law. Imagine if there allegations against Modi and he is the Prime Minister. Should the case not be pursued just because he has become the PM. It should not be so that it should be stopped. I am not above the law.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

I’m interested in two things. I’m interested in truth and I’m interested in fairness.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

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