Quotes About Justice

Nor can one take an unfair attitude even towards enemies: "Let the enmity of a people[towards you] not determine you upon an unjust course; be fair, it is closer to taqw?. Quran

Ognuno ha la faccia che gli compete, non può averne un'altra: e tutte le facce sono sempre giuste, la vita non sbaglia.

Siempre estaré del lado de aquellos que no tienen nada y que ni siquiera pueden disfrutar de nada de lo que tienen en paz.

La primera enseñanza de la polis griega es que la peor ley escrita es mejor que el albedrío del más magnánimo de los señores. No es extraño qüe la aristocracia primitiva exigiese que las leyes le asegurasen su poder mediante «draconianas» disposiciones, y que, aun así, la aceptación de las leyes hubiese de serle arrancada. Sabía que la concesión que se veía obligada a hacer era cualitativamente impagable, que no podía haber contrapartida equivalente.

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

I never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

In a democratic society like ours, relief must come through an aroused popular conscience that sears the conscience of the people's representatives.

One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution…. But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

The [Fifteenth] Amendment nullifies sophisticated as well as simple-minded modes of discrimination.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.Let justice be done, though the world perish.

There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.

Back to the land of freedom. Back to breaking the law with her sisters to make sure justice got served. God, just the thought had her tingling all over.

A culture is a civilization that has not yet achieved maturity, its greatest potential, nor consolidated its growth. Meanwhile--and the waiting period can be protracted--adjacent civilizations exploit it in a thousand ways, which is natural if not particularly just.

Une nation qui tolère les quartiers de taudis, les égoûts à ciel ouvert, les classes surpeuplées, et qui ose châtier les jeunes délinquants, me fait penser à cette vieille ivrognesse qui vomissait sur ses gosses à longueur de semaine et giflait le plus petit, par hasard, un dimanche, parce qu'il avait bavé sur son tablier. (p. 41)

Le plus grand mal que tu puisses leur faire, c'est de promettre et de ne pas tenir. D'ailleurs tu le paieras cher et ce sera justice. (p. 14)

Sería más justo decir trágico accidente, como querían unos, o crimen, como querían otros? Que cada cual escoja según su conciencia. Las palabras no van a sacar al muerto de la tumba.

ya verás como nos echan en cara a las víctimas que nos negamos a mirar hacia el futuro. Dirán que buscamos venganza. Algunos ya han empezado a decirlo.

En la justicia se fundan los imperios.

un Estado no puede durar como Estado de Derecho si no se reconocen valores absolutos previos al Estado.