Justice Quotes

Far more beguiling than the idea that evil can be destroyed by throwing a piece of expensive jewelry...

Do you understand what I'm saying?"shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!""Why Not...

YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES."So we can believe the big ones?"YES. JUST...

And he goes around killing people?” said Mort. He shook his head. “There’s no justice.”Death sighed....

You'd like Freedom, Truth, and Justice, wouldn't you, Comrade Sergeant?' said Reg encouragingly.'I'd...

But...well, Reg, tomorrow the sun will come up again, and I'm pretty sure that whatever happens we w...

Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!

After all, people seemed quite easy about having their rights and liberties taken away by those they...

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ...

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.

This reasonable moderator, and equal piece of justice, Death.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that...

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by...

Thomas Jefferson's Letter to John Holmes on the Missouri Statehood Question – April 20, 1820I thank ...

And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a co...

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced b...

Isn't this conception of absolute justice absolutely unjust?

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, th...

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...

If I owe a person money, and cannot pay him, and he threatens to put me in prison, another person ca...

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to ...

Lamenting the vagaries of fate may leave us with a galling sense of helpless frustration, which many...

You know well as I do that when we are talking on the human plane, questions of justice only arise w...

Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks li...

Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from I...

For me, human rights simply endorse a view of life and a set of moral values that are perfectly clea...

Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much libert...

What's fair ain't necessarily right.

Thingumy whispered something again. The Hemulen nodded. "It's a secret," he said. "Thingumy and Bob ...

Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence. It had been his ambition to learn "...

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

Odo said it all her life. 'Only peace brings peace, only just acts bring justice!

The fight for truth...is not just our right as free citizens of free societies. It is our duty as ci...

Well, listen a moment, Monsieur Mayor; I have often been severe in my life towards others. It was ju...

The soul of the just contemplates in sleep a mysterious heaven.

. . . for men felt therein the presence of that great human thing which is called law, and that grea...

The judge speaks in the name of justice,' he said. 'The priest speaks in the name of pity, which is ...

Because things are not agreeable," said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards Go...

We preach and practice brotherhood — not only of man but of all living beings — not on Sundays only ...

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justi...

I'm really very sorry for you all, but it's an unjust world, and virtue is triumphant only in theatr...

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.

In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men...

After the Guam conference ended, it was reported that Pope Gregory ceased to pray for peace in the w...

Delay of justice is injustice.

The time's gone by for sentiment and all that foolery. Mercy's all very well but after all it's just...

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice ...

Rats and roaches live by competition under the law of supply and demand; it is the privilege of huma...

Is there any forgiveness? If somebody does something wrong, we now have copped this "off with the he...

Don't you believe that the punishment should fit the crime? Isn't that what justice is? Letely, thou...

We forgive sometimes, and sometimes we don't. One thing that's consistent is, at least in the early ...

It is not for you to say - you Englishmen, who have conquered your freedom so long ago, that you hav...

The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert,...

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, ...

Justice is the sum of all moral duty.

The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided amon...

Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.

In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest.

Let justice be done though the heavens fall.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor...

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not ...

Justice' primes the human habitat for peaceful and friendly togetherness. It sets the table - the ro...

He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitabl...

Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousa...

We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of i...

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impa...

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or...

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. The...

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbaris...

Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the sa...

If there is any societyamong robbers and murderers, they must at least. . . .abstainfrom robbing and...

When strength is yoked with justice, where is a mightier pair than they?

ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two...

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for toleran...

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not...

She looked at them with shining eyes. Her chin went up. She said: "You regard it as impossible that ...

I was thinking, that when my time comes, I should be sorry if the only plea I had to offer was that ...

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social j...

The continuing belief that the world is fundamentally just is implied in the very complaint that the...

Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected.

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.